Garbage crisis triggers clashes in Naples
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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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The EU ordered Italy on Thursday to clean up Naples within a month Â or face legal action.
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday urged residents of the southern city Naples to help the government stop a turf war between gangs that has claimed124 lives in the past twelve months.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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Un intero municipio (circoscrizione) di Roma ha deciso di bandire la Coca-Cola dai distributori automatici di uffici e scuole. Un boicottaggio che nasce addirittura per protestare contro la situazione sindacale in Colombia.
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The Italian army battles against huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets of Naples.
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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.
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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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By Anthony Mccartney, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 22--TAMPA -- Hillsborough County is poised to raise its fees for residential trash collection for the first time in years.   Currently, customers in unincorporated areas pay $170 for pickup and disposal services.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  GRANADA HILLS -- Neighborhood activists worry the merger of two Sunshine Canyon Landfills into a megadump could draw tons of unwanted trash from outside the region if county officials agree to a last-minute request by dump operators.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Trash dumps used to be for garbage and vultures.   But Catawba County is developing the next generation of landfills: places where garbage and sewage become commodities with little left over to clutter or pollute.
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By Bernard Harris  Mayor asks for patience, but says city will not back away from single-hauler system that begins in October.  It was too late for the crowd that turned out in opposition to the city's new trash plan on Monday night.
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By Jennifer Amy Myers, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--BILLERICA -- Amid protests from angry condo owners, selectmen agreed last night to postpone voting on a proposal that would limit municipal trash pickup to only single and two-family homes.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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The BBC's Tamsin Smith joins anti-Mafia police on a raid in a Naples suburb at the heart of a vicious turf war.
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By Tom Coombe, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 31--A Plainfield Township landfill has paid a $56,000 fine for letting litter escape from its boundaries.
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(AGI) - Naples, Italy, Dec. 8 - A fire attack took place last night in an apartment on Via Monte Rosa, at the border between the quarters of Secondigliano and Scampia on the northern suburb of Naples where a bloody camorra feud is under way.