There's the incivility factor. Those who, by not paying their municipal waste collection tax (TARI), leave bags of garbage wherever they can. But that's not enough, according to opposition city councilor Roberto Mura, to explain the postcards from Cagliari depicting uncollected garbage dumped in various areas.
He calls it "the wonderful world of Massi and Luisa," that is, of Mayor Massimo Zedda and his councilor for technological services Luisa Giua Marassi.
"Just take a walk around the city to see the degradation and filth around every corner," Mura says, adding: "The inability of the separate waste collection system to reach optimal levels is unbearable given such a high waste tax, but in recent months we've been witnessing a complete failure to address the issue of decorum and cleanliness in the city."
Isn't it enough to see these results, asks the minority representative, "to realize that it's absurd to imprison the city for 18 years (from 2017 to 2026 and for the next nine) to the same system of separate waste collection and urban hygiene?"
The revolution announced by the Zedda administration "is nothing more than what we've already experienced in the past nine years: skyrocketing waste taxes and inadequate cleaning. We urgently need to change the system by empowering the many people who do a good job of recycling, installing video-monitored neighborhood eco-islands (like in the rest of the world), and investing structural resources in the city's daily cleaning."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
