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02 October 2019 "In Rome we risk a health emergency for waste". This is the alarm raised today by Antonio Magi and Pierluigi Bartoletti, president and vice president of the Provincial Order of Surgeons and Dentists (Omceo) of Rome. "It is necessary to avoid that in a short time, in the capital of Italy, there are heaps of garbage in every street, near schools, hospitals, public places and that such degradation becomes attractive for animals. There is no time to lose".

Dangerous resignations
"The chaos in which the AMA pays with the umpteenth resignation of the nth Board of Directors and the appointment of a new director worries the Rome Medical Association and the province which continues to constantly monitor the situation - remember Magi and Bartoletti - The collection of waste in the Italian capital is based, and badly, on a very fragile balance based mainly on the willingness of neighboring regions to accept our residues, albeit at a high price. collection and disposal cycle ". As an Order of Physicians "we have and feel the duty to make an appeal to all those who have the responsibility to sit around a table and find a solution in a short time. The Order is willing to do its part and meet the vertices of the Ama ".

The guarantor of childhood
"Regardless of a real health emergency, shared solutions must be found immediately to shelter schools and children. As a last resort, we are also ready to request the closure of the institutions". The Lazio National Childhood and Ombudsman, Jacopo Marzetti, intervenes after the new alarm launched by the Medical Association of Rome. "I had already written in June - recalls Marzetti - to the mayor Raggi, the president of the Zingaretti Region and the President of the AMA asking for a common path to be taken to prevent a possible waste emergency from creating problems outside of schools.Ri and Zingaretti explained to me that there was a national table and that the situation was basically under control. In September, on time, the theme came up again and I wrote to all three again: this time only the Rays gave the availability for a meeting, no reply from Zingaretti and not even from the president of Ama as well, to read the newspapers, she complained that the mayor did not respond to them for some time ... Beyond the specific competences - the Guarantor concludes - I ask the institutions to take on the problem. There must be no waste in front of the schools, all of them
administrations must take their responsibility. Our children's health is at stake ".

Marino's plan
The former mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino with a post in which he says: '' I express my thoughts not to participate in the political debate but to express once again the frustration of seeing canceled the plan and the investments for a series of plants that we established in 2014-2015 and that, if they had not been canceled, today would use a significant part of the 500,000 tons / year of wet waste in the Capital to produce gas. Those plants, called biodigestori, would have turned the waste into wealth. Among other things, as I already wrote, this is not an original idea but a technology used in about 80 countries around the world, from Asia, to Europe, to the United States. For example, only California has 30 such facilities, New York State 13, and the United States as a whole turns over 10,000 tons / year of wet waste into biogas ''. "Furthermore - Marino continues - there are some incinerators owned by Acea Gruppo (therefore existing incinerators, not new incinerators), the company of which Roma Capitale holds the majority of the shares, which could be subjected to a rapid modernization and would allow to dispose of most of the waste sent to other regions.

The League to the attack
"Raggi shows day after day that he does not understand anything about waste. Unacceptable for the mayor of a European metropolis. It would be more dignified to admit the evidence and take note of it, without waiting for the vote on the sacrosanct motion of no confidence in him. Meanwhile, Rome and the Romans are sinking into decay and waste: a capital shame. The whole world laughs behind it, because the collection door-to-door of waste separation in Milan is done and Rome cannot: recovering and recycling waste is possible. Only what is not possible to recycle must then be sent to the waste-to-energy plants to produce clean energy and heat.While Raggi will think about how to keep the armchair in the Capitol, instead of starting a good time to apply the fundamentals of the circular economy, the situation will never change ". Thus the deputies of the League in the Environment Committee of the Chamber, Elena Lucchini (group leader), Alessandro Manuel Benvenuto (president), Mirco Badole, Luigi D'Eramo, Claudia Gobbato, Ugo Parolo, Elena Raffaelli, Vania Valbusa and Sergio Vallotto.

Meanwhile it is chaos
The mayor Virginia Raggi in the crosshairs of the former members of the Board of Directors of Ama who have resigned in recent years. In fact, yesterday's is the second goodbye in a few months of the leaders of the Rome waste company, the fifth in the three years of government of the first Italian citizen. They assert that the 2017 budget, despite having been rejected by the Giunta, is regular. They tell of requested and always disregarded meetings, of "lack of an effective and concrete collaboration" denounce that "Someone is aiming for financial disaster".