When Ferruccio Caschili, born in 1939, shows up at number three in via dei Passeri, in the Monte Mixi district of Cagliari, he has clear ideas and a hundred euros in his pocket. The notary who welcomes him records the date and times, status and intentions, all to be written on stamped paper, complete with stamps and sealing wax. It is July 31, 2015. The notary hands are stopped at ten minutes past twelve. The repertoire is 2692, the object of the operation is encrypted behind the deed of incorporation of a limited liability company, simplified and moreover "unipersonal".
Avenue Macchiareddu
The name chosen for the business structure, without a lira in his pocket, says it all: "Nuova Materie Prime Mediterranee srls with sole shareholder". The headquarters is an " avenue" in the industrial district of Assemini, Macchiareddu, a secluded side of the fifth avenue, where the previous business never started, failed before producing the first refrigerator. The corporate object, the one that tells the dreams and desires of the newborn company, is an encyclopaedia of everything to do. The business & waste design seems preconceived, like a puzzle that has to be put together without anyone noticing. The notary annotates the projects and writes them on State paper.
Everything and more
The operating categories recorded are boundless: «exercise of mining activities in general, even in wetlands with the use of suitable machinery and equipment, marketing of inert products for industry, with more specific reference to calcium sulphate, excavation and cultivation of quarries and mines, opencast and non-opencast processing of material, in total and/or partial cycle, including by-products and slag both from own or third-party concession or sub-leased deposits and in any case for negotiable constitutive and/or administrative titles that justify their legitimacy and/or exercise".
Sulphate & toxic-harmful
The map of corporate trades is varied, almost dictated on commission, as if only someone knew the true entrepreneurial mission of a company as mysterious as it is determined. In reality, few people, perhaps not even the pensioner who makes up the company, have an idea of what calcium sulphate is, the waste and by-products to be recycled in wetlands. Out of caution, as a way out, should the recycling business go awry, the notary also notes in the deed of incorporation the second level of interest of the newly formed company: «management and exploitation of quarries to be allocated also to controlled landfills, removal, collection, transport and disposal of urban solid waste, sludge, liquids, including industrial, dangerous, toxic and noxious waste and anything else permitted and granted». The final paragraph reveals most of all what cannot be said, such as those "codicilli" written with the final asterisk in the contracts to be read with a magnifying glass: «Participating in tenders and competitions, signing conventions and contracts for the activation and management of quarries and for the collection, treatment and disposal of any type of waste».
