Napoli Drowning in Trash

Modern-day Napoli is known by Italians and tourists alike to be a chaotic, dangerous, beautiful place, but also one with a serious trash problem. The problem has recently grown so wildly out of control, that this week the Italian government estimated that are 2,700 tons of trash on the streets of Napoli.

The President of Italy (appropriately named Napolitano) has called it a situazione tragica -- a tragic situation -- stating that in the current (and recently improved) measures have been effective in combatting the trash problem, but not nearly enough. In certain neighborhoods of the city schools have threatened closure, because the schools were "immersed in trash".

(Above, a library in Napoli fighting to stay afloat in a sea of trash)

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