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Sicilia tra Regione e cittadini: dalla politica dei rifiuti al rifiuto della politica

Just as, on the occasion of the celebrations of 150 years after Garibaldi's expedition of the Thousand and then the unification of Italy - called for by its liberal era in Sicily, Crispi in testa - alcuni campanilisti della Sicilia di oggi imitando la Lega Nord se la prendono, nientedimeno, col glorioso Risorgimento liberale, anziché con le proprie classi dirigenti corrotte da secoli (v. la grande storiografia meridionalistica: Croce, Dorso, Fortunato, Salvemini ecc), ecco come un intellettuale liberale siciliano, tra i più moderati, denuncia l'inefficienza e la corruzione diffusa nella classe politica siciliana, e la colpevole passività o acquiescenza dell'opinione pubblica locale, a cominciare dal problema dei rifiuti e dell'ambiente. Anche questa va messa tra le "colpe" dei Cavour, Garibaldi e Savoia? Davvero non c'è limite al ridicolo dei nostri "autonomisti" alle vongole, totalmente digiuni di History and sense of duty, and of Liberty. On the technical-scientific, finally, we do not have the relevant information to assess the degree of health risk from incinerators which mentions the author, so this blog takes no position on it.
NICO VALERIO
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"I remember at the end of 2007, early 2008, the sense of sadness I felt when it exploded in his television show, the story of the waste in Naples and Campania. Naples is a great city, made beautiful by nature and buildings and monuments that attest to a long and eventful history. A city rich in spirit, as evidenced by the works di tanti suoi illustri cittadini e cito per tutti Giambattista Vico e Benedetto Croce. Eppure le immagini impietose dei rifiuti, che con la loro ingombrante presenza offendevano luoghi cari, rendevano il senso di una decadenza, di un degrado, provavano in modo indiscutibile i guasti di una cattiva amministrazione della cosa pubblica. Il caso Napoli diede un colpo mortale alla credibilità del governo Prodi. Per quanto mi riguarda, nel gennaio del 2008 scrissi che non soltanto non mi sentivo di considerare Lamberto Dini un traditore ma che, se fossi stato al posto suo, anch'io avrei negato la fiducia al governo.
Anche Palermo, Catania, Messina, Siracusa, sono città dove, per bellezza della natura e testimonianze storiche e artistiche, dovrebbe essere can live well. Yet, after Naples, the National System of Civil Protection was again alerted it could face a waste crisis as severe as in Sicily. The Head of Civil Protection - and I quote from a well-known agency on 8 May 2010 - said things that I think are common sense to solve the problem of waste management in Sicily "is necessary on the one hand there is maximization of the objectives by all local authorities involved, regions, provinces and municipalities, and other energy plants need to be conducted so as to close the cycle of waste ".
I step back. The Sicilian politicians are accustomed to thinking big. It could dire che facilmente pecca di megalomania. Alla fine del 2002, con ordinanza commissariale 18 dicembre 2002, n. 1166, fu approvato il piano regionale di gestione dei rifiuti. Prevedeva l'istituzione di ventisette ambiti territoriali ottimali (l'acronimo è ATO), precisando che per ciascuno di essi andava costituita una società d'ambito. La predetta ordinanza commissariale recava la firma dell'allora Presidente della Regione Salvatore Cuffaro. Quella scelta generosa, di "valorizzazione delle realtà territoriali", come si suol dire quando vengono in considerazione provvedimenti siffatti, forse era anche funzionale alle esigenze della classe politica locale: con tanti ATO e relative società d'ambito si poteva dare una buona sistemazione a molti temporarily devoid of the most prestigious political positions and could make the happiness of more than a bureaucratic manager. But these, of course, our gossip.
But something went wrong in what we have, with some disdain, are defined as "accountancy calculations. As you know, the devil always lurks in the details. So most of the company area began to accumulate debt. It seems incredible, but in some cases, including the details neglected, it seems there was also the failure to cover the costs to pay for environmental professionals, ie people responsible for gathering material for municipal waste and to take them to landfill. I insist in describing this What "incredible" because one would expect that policy-makers, called to define the characteristics of an organizational machine to ensure an essential service to the community, are concerned first and foremost ensure the continued remuneration of employees, without the contribution which the organizational machine will not work.
In countries less tolerant, less serious errors of policy-makers would be judged very harshly by the electorate. Instead, in our part, we adopt the logic of the Gospel: who is without sin cast the first stone, and none among those that matter, is in a position to hurl. Remain as dogs without a master ", as in Sicily contemptuously are defined as persons who strive to remain free and are capable of independent consideration, but the "dog without a master," by definition, are outside of the people that matters. They may also bark at the moon.
Politicians know that respect, however, by themselves, correcting previous mistakes. Thus, Article 45 of Law February 8, 2007, No 2, the procedure was adopted to approve a new definition of optimal territorial areas. The decision rests with the President of the Region, based on a study prepared by the Regional Water and Waste "(set up, under that name in 2005), after consideration by the Regional Council and obtained the opinion of the competent Legislative committee of the Regional Assembly. One of the first acts of the then newly elected President of the Region Raffaele Lombardo was to reduce waste ATO, restate the number ten, one for each province plus one for all smaller islands (Presidential Decree 20 May 2008). Of course, this measure redesigned the institutional framework for the future, but meanwhile continued to suffer the negative consequences of past debt accumulated by the company area.
But there is a problem first. The President of the Region considers his political opponents, the President of the Province of Catania and the Mayor of Palermo. He says, and is reciprocated in an exchange of public statements. Other than collaboration between institutions! A second major problem is that the issue of waste-energized ideological fury. So, about the extraordinary experience of alleged reform of the Government of the Sicilian Region, the Democratic Party Senator Joseph Lumia wrote, among other things, the newspaper of his party: "We are in the waste sector were crucial to defeat the 'Deal of the Century: the construction of four incinerators in which the Mafia had already pointed to my eyes ... "(" The Unit ", May 9, 2010). The highest representative institution of the Sicilian Region today is based on the support that the Assembly give the Sicilian regional deputies of the Democratic Party, which in most cases feed the ideological fury that I said. Consequently, bans incinerators and, with the usual verbal sobriety, on charges of mafia who can be assessed only one use.
How far above explains why the President of the Sicilian Region May 8, 2010 has seen the need to declare that the regional law 9 of 2010 "approved by a single vote of the parliament, now in Sicily prohibits the construction of energy plants, allowing only the construction of facilities consistent with the EC Directive 2008/98. Who reads a peremptory statement might think that this is called a regional law new type: unchangeable. While the regional laws in this area so far have been dancing too, here, finally, a certainty that defies all eternity. The naive reader might well think that that European Union legislation expressly prohibiting the use incinerators. Obviously, it is not. Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and the Council is published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 22 November 2008, Series L, No. 312, pp. 3-30. The text is easy to read, but, for example, is clearly written that the "recovery" means any operation that allows to handle waste in a way that they play a useful role in replacing other materials that would otherwise have been used "to perform a given function (Article 3, paragraph 15). Annex two, which concerns precisely the" recovery ", provides the first point (R 1) that the waste is processed into fuel for energy. The note refers explicitly to the "incineration of municipal solid waste" and sets criteria for assessing their energy efficiency. The plants that produce the minimum energy efficiency set by the Directive are, with full rights, among recovery systems allowed by EU regulations.
The civil Denmark, for example, has long-standing experience in waste incinerators, capable of producing energy. This is of high technology facilities, whose secret lies in the filters installed, continuously reviewed and promptly replaced when necessary, preventing the emission of fumes and other harmful substances into the atmosphere. With a population of slightly greater than that of Sicily, but with an extension almost double, Denmark has 32 such plants. The new political
married by the regional government is characterized by the desire to promote recycling. No objection, provided that it is unclear to what extent and under what conditions it actually serves the purpose stated. In the European Union directive, we read that "recycling" means that when "a waste stream is kept separately by the type and nature of the waste in order to facilitate a specific treatment "(Article 3, paragraph 11). In other words, it makes sense to separately collect glass, paper, plastic, aluminum, electrical and electronic equipment, etc. , just as there is the possibility of allocating, in whole or in part, the materials collected for possible industrial reuse. If you do not work well for determining concrete opportunities for the industrial processing of materials collected, the collection leaves the time that it finds. Indeed, it may even become counterproductive, because it is more expensive for those who must organize and is more expensive to the citizens.
In any case, it takes time to educate the public to give the waste properly. Instead, talk to, it's easy to talk about recycling "push", imagining that organizational performance that rivals the Germans, Scandinavians and Swiss.
Beyond the rumors, the truth is that today, and for a long time to come, we continue to focus on landfill. As if the landfill did not contain the devastation of the territory! The EU Directive provides in Article 13, the fundamental principle of the protection of human health and the environment: "Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that waste management is carried out without endangering human health without harming the environment and, in particular: a) without risk to water, air, soil, flora or fauna; b) without causing a nuisance through noise or odors, c) without adversely affecting the countryside or places of special interest " .
an Annex on the "disposal operations," indicating, for example, what should be meant by "pre-treatment" of waste to landfill, "sorting, crushing, compacting, pelletizing, the 'drying, shredding, conditioning or separating. "operations are not necessary for all waste, but required in accordance with the characteristics of the waste delivered. That said, just watch the services heroic television operators have aired after a visit to the landfill Bellolampo, near Palermo, to see if our conditions are in accordance with real or not, the requirements of European Union legislation. A reviving Dante could draw inspiration to describe a hellish landscape.
There is a real health risk for the so-called "leachate" that is for the sewage coming out from the mountains of garbage piled up outside the perimeter of the landfill. Besides, there may be infiltration into the soil, resulting in danger to ground water.
Yet, with dumps of the island that literally burst, there are those who can give lessons to others - poor uncivilized - the "continent", that in the rest of Italy and Europe, were equipped with technology so dangerous to the environment such as incinerators. Some
is pleased that the mafia can not do business with the incinerators, but pretends not to notice that organized crime is already most present in waste management. Just consider how often, not only in the suburbs, but in the core of our civil city, burning the bins and containers for recycling glass, or paper. Just consider how often the auto-compacting used for waste collection suffer accidents that put them temporarily or permanently out of use. Gestures are not of angry residents. These signs, requests for someone to understand. Friends of friends must be adequately considered in the dynamics of public expenditure to the cycle of waste.
We are not in good shape. Our politicians are too busy in matters of parliamentary tactics, or to give lessons in ideological intransigence, to care about good administration. Beyond all that hard work and many are unhappy with bad accustomed.
So we have to have the moon.
LIVIO GHERSI
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GRAPHIC (click on it to enlarge): The tons of waste in the city of Enna (Sicily) from 2001 to 2006, when the collection rifferenziata è arrivata all'8,66%. Il che significa che il 91,3% dei rifiuti viene ancora smaltito nella natura, in discariche.