Health fears as rubbish piles up again - The Guardian 22nd May 2008

It starts right behind the main station: piles of stinking rubbish up to 3 metres (10ft) high. It gets steadily worse the further you drive from Naples' centre. In the area known as Tribunale Nuovo, you witness the first overturned skips and evidence that rubbish has been strewn around, then set on fire - scorch marks spreading 5 to 6 metres along the tarmac. Despite the efforts of a "special commissioner" appointed by the previous Italian government, the rubbish that first inundated Naples in December has been slowly reappearing. The city centre was tidied up for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's visit yesterday, but an estimated 2,700 tonnes remained to be collected, as well as a further 50,000 tonnes in the surrounding region of Campania.

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