Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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GIS Day 2010 in Palermo

receive and send the following statement on waste management in Palermo


[Photo: Zero Waste Palermo]

the collapse AMIA
The AMIA 8 years ago a company was profitable. Now it's collapse. [Source: The Republic http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/06/13/sei-anni-che-sconvolsero-amia.html ] has € 180 million in debt and risks failure. And 'now administered by three Commissioners of the Government on behalf of the bankruptcy court. The decay of the (100% capital of the City) began when Diego Cammarata, Mayor of Palermo in 2001, just elected a new leadership appointment AMIA: Enzo Galioto (now Senator-PDL as the Mayor-) and Horace Colimberti , President and CEO of the Beloved.
Since 1999, the Amia (with President Artioli and Orlando Mayor) had prepared draft guidelines for an integrated platform for managing the waste cycle, which involved the construction of a whole series of plants. For almost all plants (except the installation of biogas) has been spent without the money that they are operated, or just have not been built (eg. The composting plant).

plants were designed:

composting
selection of multi-material dry fraction,
treatment and crushing of inert
treatment of leachate, a heat generator
and energy electric power from biogas produced from waste,
a new entrance area and acceptance means,
a treatment plant for dismantling, shredding and metal separation of the bulky waste collected door to door, and transference
compaction, incineration
of hospital waste, a landfill
first class to receive the residual waste processing,
a wash for vehicles to landfill.

[Source: http://notes9.senato.it/W3/Lavori.nsf/All/24E3FAC6B20C08DB412567FC002F262B?OpenDocument (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the cycle of waste and illegal activities connected with it Wednesday September 29, 1999 - paragraph 3.2.1.)]

The current state of things is
this:

- the composting plant, has waited 10 years permissions, for some months, for all we know, are under the expropriations.
- of the two systems of selection (enhancement) of the collection it was built only at a cost Partanna-Mondello € 2 million (European funds), but was never put in function! The plant apparently did not pass testing.
[Source: The Republic, article entitled "Amia, the ghost plant" http://palermo.repubblica.it/dettaglio/articolo/1418945 ]
- L ' plant for the treatment of leachate (the fluid produced by highly polluting waste degradation in landfills) was built after nearly a decade, but is capable of purifying only one third of the leachate and often does not work. For the transportation and treatment of leachate were spent about € 20 million in 3 years (on average about 7 MILLION euro per year). The plant was built in 2009 cost about 1.2 million (but is too small: it can only cover 1 / 3 of the leachate) With about half the cost of a one-year AMIA could be self-sufficient in the management of leachate! Companies involved in the transport and treatment of leachate are always the same. Almost all of the leachate (one person even told us Legambiente leachate of Sicily) is sent to Gioia Tauro (But how big is this plant?).

Meanwhile, from mid-September 2009 has formed a lake next to the landfill leachate (in a non-waterproofed), which has been stationed there for nine months or so and that 'Threatens to pollute' the water table. The leachate (as seen from the photos attached) just came out from the edge of the tub, where the waste is stacked to form a real mountain. Meanwhile, the leachate has already polluted four private wells at the foot of Bellolampo, the findings prepared by prosecutors showed the presence of sulfites, nitrates and metals [Source http://www.siciliainformazioni.com/giornale/cronacaregionale/94088/conferma- -analysis of the leachate-pollution-wells-palermo.htm article 06/21/2010] The AMIA denied with a note: [ http://www.siciliainformazioni.com/giornale/cronacaregionale/94136/rifiuti- amia-palermo-analysis-show-leachate-pollution-Cammarata-defends-blame-lemergenza.htm? comment # a = newComment 06/22/2010]

Now, in mid-June after the lake was drained, the drainage reaches the edge of the fourth tank. The waste of the fourth basin essentially 'float' on the leachate, with heavy rains that threatens to overflow the tank and reform the lake in the same area that is not waterproof (with the risk of environmental pollution), as has happened in recent months.
Lake leachate was reported October 23, 2009 with a complaint to the judiciary by the associations and Palermo Liberacqua Zero Waste. From this has resulted in two lines of investigation: an environmental and administrative matters.

Renata Di Fazio
(Asst Vice President, Zero Waste Palermo)

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