Paolo Russo, a Neapolitan senator in Forza Italia, the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's party, who heads a parliamentary commission on waste trafficking, says: "The waste arrives by road every day.
Throughout the years profits from illicit waste disposal and waste trafficking have fed other illegal economic activities.
Illicit waste disposal and waste trafficking, unlawful building and excavation, covert trafficking of stolen artwork and exotic animals are all part of the ecomafia business.
But last March, he found himself in handcuffs, arrested in one of the latest and largest investigations into illegal waste trafficking in Italy.
This man recounted that one time, during a meeting about the Camorra's waste trafficking, a boss perhaps overcome with a guilty conscience for a moment noted: "If we bury the waste that deep, we risk contaminating the aquifers".
I believe that it is the best way to return all the evil that they have done and continue to do—how they poison the land with waste trafficking, destroy the coast with building violations, and dominate each and every part of people's public and private lives.
Reflect on this liberating prospect during the next life-wasting traffic jam: "This nightmarish jam could be my last!" Every cloud has a silver lining.
"Now they're developing techniques so we don't waste the traffic".
Opponents say the project will generate so much waste and traffic, and disturb so much soil, that there is no way to protect the water and the wilderness.
The average time commuters waste in traffic has climbed since 2008, according to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's annual urban mobility report from 2012, and the latest improvements may ultimately do little more than slow congestion, rather than reverse it.
These modern marvels would be connected by grids in which water, electricity, waste removal, traffic, hospitals and schools are seamlessly integrated with information technology to run them more efficiently.
