ROME. “The choice of entrusting indistinct commissioner powers to the mayor Gualtieri not to apply the best practices available to create plants useful for separate collection, but to install in who knows how many years, at least 6 or 7, an expensive and dangerous plant that burns waste and opportunities for economic growth “. Beppe Grillo writes it in an article on his blog: “Burning waste is the negation of the circular economy, even more so if you think that this plant will still need a landfill at its service to dispose of the ashes produced by combustion” he concludes.
Carlo Calenda replied immediately on Twitter: «Clean capitals have a waste-to-energy plant, the alternative is a landfill. In Rome we saw the M5S method: promise 70% of recycling, leave it standing at 44% with the city invaded by waste. Enough nonsense, at least about Rome ».
Paolo Ferrara, councilor of the M5s and vice-president of the Capitoline Assembly, obviously supports Grillo’s position: “Gualtieri’s unilateral decision on the construction of an incinerator in Rome is an act of tyranny that suppresses many hopes linked to the ecological transition, and to the recycling of materials, to life in a healthier city. It is a very heavy debt contracted to the detriment of future generations, also because in addition to the incinerator, a landfill will still be needed ».