Officials in Italy have begun excavating what they believe is the biggest illegal waste dump in Europe. Everything from chemicals and plastics to discarded construction materials has been buried in a vast area the equivalent of about 30 football fields just north of Naples, the Euro News website reports today (June 16, 2015).
Sergio Costa of the local environmental police said: "We found waste leaking back up to the surface from buried containers. Some of it was flammable. These are exceptionally hazardous and would have been expensive to treat first before being disposed of in the correct way. That's why it was just dumped here."
Although now overgrown, some people must have known what was going on when the mafia first went into the waste disposal business. But a blind eye was turned due to the fear of mafia revenge.
More than 20 years ago, mafia member Carmine Schiavone admitted to police that illicit dumping was going on in the Naples region. Local residents are now demanding a full investigation into what kind of waste has been buried in the area and how big a risk it poses to their health.
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