Trash still piling up at Naples base

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This trash collection area on the Navy Support Site at Gricignano was empty Saturday. On Thursday, it was spilling out of the enclosure.


Trash still piling up at Naples base
By Lisa M. Novak, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, January 4, 2008

NAPLES, Italy — At the Navy Support Site at Gricignano in Naples, the mountains of trash that have piled up for the past two months occasionally are hauled away, but it’s hard to tell. Just as soon as they are removed, the trash piles up again.

According to base officials, a landfill that was supposed to open in mid-December has not, and the base is still relying on various companies to haul the trash away.

“We are continuing to coordinate with the local towns near Gricignano for garbage collection,” said Capt. Floyd Hehe, commander of Naval Support Activity, Naples.

The base contracts trash services through the city of Gricignano, and the city contracts with various collection services.

While no date has been set for the new landfill site to open, The Associated Press reported that work began Thursday to reopen a dump in the Pianura neighborhood to to try to help resolve the crisis in Naples. Two vans entered the dump in the immediate outskirts of Naples to start cleaning the site, although angry residents staged a brief roadblock Thursday to protest the planned reopening.


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