The Mulas council has given the green light to the collaboration agreement between the Municipality of Porto Torres and the Province of Sassari aimed at guaranteeing the correct management of waste, the defense of citizens' health and the fight against dangerous abandonment phenomena. Over the years, in fact, the situation of the indiscriminate storage of abandoned waste of any kind, in solid or liquid state, has had a significant increase to the detriment of the hygiene and health of citizens and urban decorum. It is expected to achieve the institutional objectives of the city of Porto Torres, such as the protection and improvement of environmental conditions, through the action of the Local Police Force and the Province of Sassari, both signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding in the person of commander Caterina Onida and the official Antonio Zara.
The purpose of the integrated project is aimed at identifying and strengthening monitoring actions and interventions capable of promoting the protection of environmental matrices, therefore of the soil, subsoil, groundwater and air in the Turritano territory. It is also intended to encourage the exchange of information, in order to strengthen the tools for combating waste abandonment and other environmental crimes. The collaborative relationship is aimed at establishing cooperation between the Local Police of Porto Torres and the Environment sector of the Province, in order to identify and effectively repress the phenomenon of abandonment, storage and unauthorized landfills of waste. The traffic police force, in carrying out its activities, should verify the existence of elements attributable to environmental crimes, in agreement with the Province, it will proceed to the phase of investigation and repression of the phenomenon, also with the aid of highly technological instruments, such as flying vehicles with remotely piloted systems (RPAS). In turn, the Province makes available its professional and technological resources, as well as the information present in the databases containing pertinent information.
The establishment of a permanent working group is envisaged, in which representatives of the Local Police Force of Porto Torres and the Province of Sassari participate, with tasks of monitoring and analyzing the phenomena of waste abandonment and environmental crimes. The Protocol will be valid for three years, possibly renewable, modifiable and integrated by mutual agreement.
