A 40 million euro plan to clean the city of Rome from garbage
Newly elected Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri plans to get the Italian capital's garbage problem under control by the end of the year with a €40 million plan announced on Tuesday.
Gualtieri said in a press conference that the plan is multi-pronged and includes cleaning the streets, removing the dumped garbage, maintaining vegetation and cleaning drains.
Gualtieri, a member of the Social Democratic Party, added that more than a thousand employees of the municipal company "Ama Roma" for the disposal of waste will be deployed to regularly clean many roads and roads in the city.
However, the 55-year-old official admitted that only 57 percent of the street-cleaning vehicles and garbage trucks in Rome are currently usable.
And the city has been hit by the garbage and waste problem that it has been suffering from for years now.
Gualtieri's predecessor, Virginia Raggi of the populist Five Star Movement, was unable to solve the problem, prompting much criticism in her campaign trail in the run-up to the October elections.
Gualtieri won the election after promising effective action on the garbage problem, which is often blamed on landfill problems.
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