Waste from Tunisia causes a crisis in Italy

A mayor in southern Italy is preparing for a political and popular battle after it was announced that 6,000 tons of waste had been dumped in his town, the latest chapter in a two-year conflict between his country's government and Tunisia.

And “RT” quoted the newspaper “The Independent”, the municipality of Seri in the southern province of Campania is scheduled to become a storage place for 213 containers of illegal waste that were shipped from Italy to Tunisia in July 2020, before being returned again on Sunday.

The shipment was sent to Tunisia two years ago as part of what is known as recyclable waste, as part of joint deals between rich countries looking for cheap recycling options, and developing countries looking for new sources of income.

After months of talks, the two countries reached an agreement last Friday to ship the waste to Italy towards the port city of Salerno.

But no final solution has been found for the toxic scrap. On Tuesday it was trucked from Salerno to Bersano, a rural village next to a nature reserve overseen by the World Wildlife Fund, where it will be stored for six months.

"We do not want waste, and we will oppose it by any means," the mayor of Serre, Franco Minilla, told the newspaper Larbeccia, calling on citizens to gather at the waste deposit site to protest against the decision of the local authorities in Campania to use their municipality as a "landfill". .

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