Garbage crisis stirs protest in Naples
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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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ATHENS -- Since the Greek capital's only landfill reached saturation a month ago, Athens has been in the grip of a garbage crisis.
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Banners and flags are seen during a demonstration in Vicenza. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, to protest the planned expansion of a US military base here, a divisive ...Comment
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After the only landfill for Athens reached capacity a month ago, mountains of refuse filled the streets. Now a temporary landfill, too, is brimming.
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NAPLES, Italy - 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. via Times-News
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.
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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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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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Armed with a high-pressure hose and a bucket of octopi, hundreds of protestors in this Mediterranean town pelted a McDonalds restaurant due to open this week with the slimy seafood.
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By MIKE DUNNE  Environmental groups want the state Department of Environmental Quality to hold a public hearing on the closure plan for the shut- down Chef Menteur Construction and Demolition Landfill in eastern New Orleans.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  Covered in mud and their nostrils assaulted by foul odors, about 30 volunteers worked Saturday to clean up a longtime dump site near Pigeon Creek.
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Una protesta di estrema gravitÃ  e senza precedenti Ã¨ in corso in Calabria. Gli operai forestali, organizzati da Cgil, Cisl e Uil e con la solidarietÃ  anche di alcuni amministratori locali hanno tagliato la regione dal resto del Paese.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.
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A cargo boat laden with 500 tons of garbage from Naples docked at the island of Sardinia on Thursday as the government worked to undo a weeks-long trash emergency that left heaps of waste piled up on the streets of Naples.
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A French town has been forced to stop using a former World War I battlefield as a garbage dump after a fierce campaign by British media and citizens outraged at what they called a "desecration" of the memory of ...
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Naples' garbage crisis may worsen with the planned weekend closure of the only working dump in the area, officials said yesterday, as rubbish continued to pile up in the city.
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Premier Romano Prodi announced emergency measures Tuesday to deal with Naples' garbage crisis, and pledged to curb the control that organized crime has over trash collection.