Italian towns contest waste facility projects
Municipalities across Italy have launched legal and political actions against several waste‑related projects. San Giovanni Incarico and 91 neighboring communes have presented a petition to the European Parliament to block the reopening of the Roccasecca landfill, while the same town and other localities have demanded that the EU halt the expansion of the Cerreto landfill. In Cingoli, residents and businesses have filed a double appeal to the regional administrative court (TAR) over a proposed landfill enlargement, and the town of Montemarciano’s mayor criticised the prior administration after the TAR approved a new waste‑treatment plant in the Gabella industrial area.
In Misano Adriatico, the mayor announced tighter inspections, new fines ranging from €1,500 to €18,000 and the deployment of photo‑traps to curb illegal waste dumping. Trade union leaders in Florence and the surrounding metropolitan area warned that waste‑collection tariffs (TARI) have risen by up to 39 % since 2020, reflecting the high cost of exporting waste to other regions.
Meanwhile, the regional government signed major wastewater‑treatment contracts: Benevento will build a new depuratore worth €29.6 million to serve 45 000 inhabitants, and the Tono project in the Messina province, valued at over €50 million, has begun preliminary site work. Finally, Nucleco initiated the first of 30 shipments of low‑activity radioactive waste from the Casaccia site to the United Kingdom for incineration, aiming to reduce the waste volume by about 95 %.