Naples' garbage crisis worsens
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Naples' garbage crisis may worsen with the planned weekend closure of the only working dump in the area and piles of trash growing higher, officials said Thursday.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--RALEIGH -- Human waste trickles out of a rusting single-wide trailer in Oak Hill Estates, draining to a rivulet that flows past children's toys before disappearing into head-high weeds.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 14--PORTSMOUTH -- SPSA, the regional waste authority, learned this week that burning rain-soaked garbage at its power plant near downtown Portsmouth is not such a good idea.   Actually, it stinks.
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The stench of fuel fumes and rotting garbage wafted though soaked streets Wednesday and residents dragged out dripping bedding, carpets and clothing as flood waters receded from a disaster that has killed at least 50 people.
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If the children of Naples had their way, they would ask Batman to save them from rotting rubbish that threatens a major health emergency and may force some schools to close early for the summer holidays.
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The mayor of Naples appealed to angry residents Saturday to stay calm in the city's two-week-old garbage crisis, and the prime minister called it an emergency that must to be tackled quickly.
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NAPLES, Italy  - Angry Neapolitans blocked railway tracks, hurled stones at police and overturned vehicles on Saturday to protest against plans to reopen a waste dump to deal with the city's long-running refuse crisis.
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Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples on Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crime and bureaucratic red tape for the city's refuse crisis.
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Unlike Mount St. Helens, Volcano in Naples That Buried Pompeii Poses a Threat to Millions. By Daniel Williams. NAPLES, Italy -- Mount St.
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For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns have periodically choked on their refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into a real crisis.
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The U.S. Embassy in Rome is warning Americans traveling to Naples and its surrounding region they may face health risks from a garbage crisis that has left rubbish piling up in the streets.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 8--For years, Raleigh's leftovers have been dumped on the northern end of the Dorothea Dix hospital campus.   But the city has turned that trash into treasure.
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By Rita Savard, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 23--CHELMSFORD -- Paying high fees for trash removal prompted residents to raise a stink in the past.
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Angry Neapolitans blocked railway  tracks, hurled stones at police and overturned vehicles on  Saturday to protest against plans to reopen a waste dump to  deal with the city's long-running refuse crisis.
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Bulgarian authorities fear an outbreak of disease from tonnes of waste garbage piled up in Sofia after protestors for the seventh day blocked access to the capital's main waste disposal site.
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TORONTO -- Joe Racanelli slung a sagging plastic bag onto a heap of others on the back of his garbage truck and leaned on two levers to close a set of steel jaws.
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Italian army called in to start clearing festering piles of rubbish from streets of Naples as Prodi vows to solve problem 'once and for all'