Hier soir sur ARTE il y a eu un reportage interessant sur la pollution autour de Naples.
Un business pas très propre
(Allemagne, 2010, 43mn)
ZDF
Réalisateur: Carmen Butta
Profitant de la crise des ordures à Naples, la Camorra organise un trafic européen de déchets toxiques.
Tandis que les poubelles s'amoncellent dans la ville de Naples, l'arrière-pays est victime d'une pollution plus dangereuse encore : le dépôt illégal de déchets toxiques qui empoisonnent les sols et déciment les troupeaux. Depuis les recherches menées par le physicien et défenseur de l'environnement Alessandro Iacuelli jusqu'aux témoignages d'ouvriers travaillant dans une usine de traitement de déchets de la région de Leipzig en passant par les investigations de la justice napolitaine, ce documentaire met en lumière un trafic à l'échelle européenne, orchestré, selon les enquêteurs, par la Camorra.
Les poubelles entassée dans Naples il y a quelques mois (Janvier 2008) ne sont que la partie emergée de l'iceberg.
Dans les campagnes alentours de Naples des déchets ménager sont truffés de déchéts dangereux des industriels des régions bu Nord. (de la chimie, du rafinage , des dioxiens, diphényls....). Les agriculteurs du coin (vergers) on un taux de canser 4x supérieur au reste de l' Italie. La Camora qui gangréne le secteur des déchets dispose tout ca n' importe ou illégalement.
Mais tout ca commencait à étre connu en Janvier 2008 :
TRIANGLE OF DEATH
Medical journal Lancet Oncology in 2004 dubbed part of the Campania region, of which Naples is the capital, "the triangle of death" because the air, soil and water are polluted by high levels of cancer-causing toxins believed to have come from waste.
Research released last year by Italy's National Research Council found that among people living closest to the least-regulated waste-disposal sites -- where trash is dumped in fields or burnt without any controls -- the mortality rate was 12 percent greater than the norm for women and 9 percent greater for men.
Fatal liver cancers were much more common -- up 29 percent for women and 19 percent for men in the most at-risk areas -- and there were huge increases in congenital malformations of the nervous and urinary systems.
While more than half the places studied in the area did not show abnormal health problems, the study implies a significant health risk for those living in the worst areas.
"First we need to make the dumps safe, close them off, properly gather the bio-gas and control the runoff," said Fabrizio Bianchi, who conducted the research. "We have to get out of this crisis."
Naples' failure to deal with its own household waste hit crisis point at the end of December when all refuse collection stopped as waste dumps had reached capacity, leaving people with no choice but to throw it onto the streets.
TOXIC, LUCRATIVE
Political ineptitude, corruption and crime have conspired to stop the creation of a modern, safe disposal system. People despair of their politicians and are suspicious of government schemes -- like a new incinerator -- aimed at ending the crisis.
Like many in and around the 'triangle of death', those in Pianura say their council-run landfill was not properly managed and became a tipping site for hazardous waste.
But an even bigger source of pollution is the Camorra, the Naples mafia which runs a lucrative line in dumping and burning rubbish illegally.
More than domestic trash, the Camorra focuses on disposal of industrial waste which it brings to Campania from Italy's rich north -- one of a string of crimes against the environment earning the mafia an estimated 6 billion euros a year.
"The Camorra continues to control the cycle of industrial waste that comes from the north of Italy," said Michele Buonomo of Legambiente, a campaign group which closely monitors organized crime's assault on the environment.
"That's why practically every night in vast areas of Campania, waste arrives to be burned."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1681676520080117
Quand on a un javelin dans la main, tous les problèmes ressemblent à un T-72.