It's been at least five years, to be good, that Rome hasn't worried about its own waste. Faced with the health risk that the Capital runs due to piles of rubbish, it was recalled how the Senate Ecomafie Commission in 2017 warned that: "the plant system presents fragility, rigidity and precariousness which give rise to frequent service interruptions and leave looming threats of crisis in the treatment and disposal cycle". Five years during which nothing has been done to lighten the weight of tons of garbage produced. The alarm raised by the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa of a health risk , aggravated by the high temperatures of the days and by the recovery of tourism, makes the leadership of the capital even more precarious, despite Virginia Raggi's race for a reappointment.
Rome continues to produce tons of waste of which 1500 are growing in smelly heaps. Yet the technological solutions downstream of political choices were and are all there. There stubbornness of the Cinquestelle supported by a former Minister of the Environment contrary to any rational system solution, it has resulted in the transfer of rubbish to at least 5 regions: Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Puglia, Abruzzo and Marche. 36 tons taken out in defiance of the construction of new necessary plants. After all, landfills were the choice of those who for years have shouted a green, aware and modern change in the squares.
Even today, many Grillini exponents participate in the demonstrations of environmental movements, boasting of having ideas on the steps to a sustainable economy. Rome does not text? After the closure of the Malagrotta mega-landfill, they essentially managed to get by, as in the best tradition of the politics of the status quo. The focus was on differentiated waste collection, but it did not go beyond 46%. A disaster covered by incapacity and propaganda. As if that weren't enough, in Pomigliano d'Arco, in the city of Luigi Di Maio, committees close to him are waging a battle against a composting plant designed by the Campania Region. In short , it is in conception of sustainability (?) of the Cinquestelle that the plants, the technologies, the structures have no place. It seems really complicated to combine science, sense of duty, political responsibility. The fact then that in the controversy between the Municipality of Rome and the Lazio Region to overcome the crisis of these days "the Ministry of Ecological Transition is attempting mediation between the parties", reports the Italian Agency, is proof that the contradictions within the Movement they are lacerating.
In Lazio the mayors must be autonomous in the management of services, starting from the most delicate which concerns health, decorum, the efficiency of the administrative machinery. Wasn't that what the grillini asked for when they were against caste? The governor of Lazio Zingaretti threatens the commissioner of the Municipality of Rome and of the AMA for "manifest incapacity". They reply that the Lazio Region has been absent. Paradoxically, who knows if it won't be the “jolly green” Cingolani who will solve one decisive game also for the administrative vote of autumn in Rome with widespread consequences in the North and South.
