Refusals

Common Ricicloni: Grosseto I always complete
The classification of the Maremma

Legambiente introduces the annual classification worded for remembering worths and demerits of the Local Administrations in theme of refusals: Grosseto, once more, to the last place among the chief towns of province, Cinigiano the commune of the grossetano with the best results

Monday is held 13 November to Florence, near the center of the Region Tuscany, the ceremony of assignment of the Prize "Common Tuscan Ricicloni." The demonstration promoted by Legambiente, proposed for the third consecutive year to regional level, it rewards the best results of diversified harvest of the refusals reached for chief towns of province, for common and for good datum of harvest for single typologies of material. The data, elaborate thanks to the collaboration among Region Tuscany, Legambiente and ARRR (Agency Regional Recovery Resources), show as the Tuscan situation, also rich of happy islands, is characterized by lights and shades: it wins the Commune of Porcari (LU) champion of the diversified harvest, that holds the absolute record with the 36.02% of picked refusals; well also the communes of Capannori (LU) (35.77%) and Goatherd and Limit (FI) (35.00%), Empoli (FI) (33.10%) and Lucca (32.31%). The results of the common chief town of province see in head the good results of Lucca (32.31%), Lawn (25.10%) and Mass (20.93%), while Grosseto (1,94%) also results this year to the last place, with the peggior resulted in Tuscany for the diversified harvest. In the occasion we remember that the objectives fixed by the Decree Ronchi for 2001 are of the 25% of diversified harvest straight, and in lack of such fulfillments once more further heavy taxes they will burden on the city maremmanis. "We want to report once more the indifference of the institutions grossetane - you/he/she has declared Angel Kind of the National Reception office of Legambiente - towards the problem list of the recycling, of the recovery and of the riutilizzo of the refusals, that you/they can also represent a meaningful resource, and to invite the Administrations maremmane and the common chief town, besides all the other communes of the provincial territory to a concrete appointment in this direction. The hope in fact it is that there is in the province of Grosseto a sensitive improvement in the quality and in the quantity of the diversified harvest of the refusals, that constitutes a fundamental wedge for the sustainable development of our territory next year."
It needs that the Local Corporate body give a signal of change of rout: it is not enough to furnish some districts of cassonetti, they serve series and diffused countries of sensitization and information, to come true in collaboration with the productive categories, the schools, the districts. They are not these impossible finishing lines, since many Tuscan communes have succeeded in this road. Also in the districts of Grosseto where an experience has been on its way he/she pilots for the diversified harvest of the refusals (Gorarella and Marina of Grosseto) the country of sensitization you/he/she has been effected in ineffective way, few capillary and with strong organizational (a lot of interested schools are not been inserted inside the project) delays. However also with the met difficulties experience pilots it represents a project to improve, to stimulate and to extend to the whole town territory. Besides numerous citizens, teachers, sensitive students to the thematic environmental, inhabitants in the town territory, our Association they are turned to in how much you/they would have wanted to undertake in the harvest but least conditions didn't subsist for being able to act. Legambiente asks to the commune of Grosseto to activate a specific project, and that I/you/he/she am activated so that:
- the experience of the diversified harvest is extended by the districts he/she pilots to the whole town territory;
- the harvest of the dangerous urban refusals is activated;
- a country of sensitization and capillary and diffused information is effected;
- the schools of the town territory are involved in the realization of ecological islands in front of the scholastic structures.
 These represent the points of departure for the correct management of the politics of the refusals, how much never necessary in Maremma. However not only shades in the data picked up by Legambiente for the province of Grosseto; in fact some individuals communes have reached positive results for the total (Cinigiano, the only one to have overcome the 15% threshold, and following Casteldelpiano, Montieri, Gavorrano and Follonica) diversified harvest. Overall this very negative situation is also underlined in the positioning of the communes in the classifications for single typologies:
METALS: Orbetello with 43,935 kgs / inhabitant (to the 13° place in the regional classification for this typology);
Green (prunings, lumber): Scarlino 37,182 kgs / inhabitant (to the 17° place in the regional classification for this typology);
PAPER: Orbetello with 27.921 kgs / inhabitant (to the 108° place in the regional classification for this typology);
GLASS: Montieri with 22,790 kgs / inhabitant (to the 28° place in the regional classification for this typology);
DANGEROUS: Pitigliano with 1,807 kgs / inhabitant (to the 9° place in the regional classification for this typology);
CANS: Castiglione of the Pescaia with 0.568 kgs / inhabitant (to the 47° place in the regional classification for this typology);
PLASTICS: Scarlino with 5,796 kgs / inhabitant (to the 23° place in the regional classification for this typology).

The Maremma as nuclear dump?

Rain reactions for the individualization in Maremma of some sites for dumps of radioactive materials. "And' a study of some a long time ago, in comparison to which the already express Region a negative opinion strongly - the alderman Thomas Franci explains - you/he/she has not even been approved from the lecture State-regions. To how much it results us there have been no further novelties, always that, naturally, the government Berlusconi doesn't have in Serb other undesirable surprise for Tuscany. We would like the Tuscan representatives in the government to reassure us." This way the regional alderman to the environment has intervened on the matter. "On the conclusions of that study I am not able whether to confirm all of my contrariety - it adds Frank - the Region is beside the local corporate body of the Maremma that intend to oppose to a deposit of cinders holding him/it an inconceivable hypothesis. The principal fear is that from Rome is wanted to burn the times, putting us in front of the finished fact." Claudio Franci, Fabrizio Vigni and Mark Susini. He/she wonders "what appointment the Government Berlusconi intends to assume for doing yes that the development of quality of the Maremma grossetana is not jeopardized with initiatives as the location of deposits of radioactive cinders ". The president of the Province, Lio Scheggi, asks with the maximum urgency a series of explanations to the Government and the parliamentary chosens in Maremma. "I learn from the press - he/she writes you Splinter - that minister Anthony Marzano would have decided to reopen the delicate chapter on the individualization of sites to put in safety 23 thousand meters cubes of radioactive cinders, a study of the Enea in which a map of 55 possible sites is individualized in Tuscany taking back, one of these are in Maremma. I intend immediately to express our total contrariety to this hypothesis, motivated by the presence in the territory of environmental and landscape resources of relief with specific programs of investment. I don't complete, really in these days, the recognition of Rural District of Europe, that will be attributed to the province of Grosseto in the next weeks." Also the regional adviser Ds, Loriano Valentini, has introduced an urgent interrogation also signed by the president of the Committee Ambiente, Sirio Bussolotti, in which he/she wonders to the junta "what institutional actions and politics it intends to undertake for opposing and to prevent that the Maremma suffers the location of these sites today that they would jeopardize forever the future of it." Worried and pessimist the Democrat-Margherita's group leader, Erasmo Di Angelis, that had already intervened on the problem 10 months ago. "Tuscany will have as I give - he/she writes - two great necessary graves to bury 120-130 thousand meters cubes of nuclear poisons through the burial of great tubs of cement, you locate the first one in a bordering territory with Tuscany, to the confinements with the Lazio in the inclusive zone among the lake of Bolsena and Montalto of second Castro;la in the hinterland of the Maremma around Roccalbegna, Saturnia and Pitigliano." Finally the Federation Tuscany Verdi, for mouth of Rosy Miracolo, ripercorre the story and it rejects the hypothesis of a new Maremma "nuclear pattumiera."

The Maremma is not the pattumiera of Italy

The judicial iter that has brought to the sequestration of the Cogeneratore of Scarlino takes its course. Legambiente intervenes on the theme remembering that it deals with a plant. What it digests refusals coming from other Italian regions, that use the maremma to free of their refusals in such way. The association has introduced a Declaration of intervention to the Proxy of the Republic in the penal procedure in progress, reserving himself/herself/itself to constitute him civil part for the reimbursement of the Environmental damage (l. 265/99) for Region Tuscany, Province Of Grosseto, Common of Scarlino and Follonica.

Speaking of the sequestration of the incinerator of Scarlino from the Magistracy, Legambiente first of all holds to specify with clarity his/her own position: it is necessary that this intervention takes its course, and that a judicial run is followed for the respect of the laws in force in subject of disposal of the refusals. As confirmed in a lot of other occasions in fact, the Decree Ronchi in subject of refusals is a meaningful tool to realize a correct politics on this theme.
It is unthinkable that this plant as the Cogeneratore of Scarlino is been able to rise thanks to an accord among ENI and Office of the industry in beard to all the plannings of the Local Corporate body and particularly to the Provincial Plan of the Refusals, that has been having for a lot of time individualized in Valpiana the center of a plant of disposal. In such sense it needs to meticulously respect the levels of planning regional and provincial respect to the disposal of the refusals and the wish of the resident populations and the local institutions: all this thin to today you/he/she has not been done, and the society ENI only environment has put besides not the plant in operation without the necessary authorizations, but you/he/she has brought forth a business politics that risks to make to become the Maremma the pattumiera of Italy. In fact the disposals of the Cogeneratore don't concern only the refusals produced in our territory, but also those coming from Lawn and from Pistoia or straight from other Italian regions, in absence of whatever authorization, accord or planning.
Legambiente opposes him with strength to these attempts to continue in a politics foolish industrialist, not transparent, imposed by the tall one, to that nothing has whether to see with the Maremma - one of the areas of great artistic interest, naturalistic, historical of our peninsula, rich of zones that have immediately limited and few incisive interventions from the man, entire natural environments perfectly and places of great historical importance - that you/he/she has made of tourism of quality, environmental good his/her strong point.
Legambiente gathers the occasion to ask to the Local Corporate body to activate him to improve and to strengthen the system of diversified harvest of the refusals, and to activate even more him than done thin to today for a serious and best politics of management of the refusals in our territory.