Last year the world focused up on the emergency in Naples. Everybody remembers of the streets boiling with trash and of the exasperated people protesting for what was happening in their city and in the whole region. Nowadays, one year and a half passed, it's interesting to analyze the actual situation, with the help of Google Earth, finding out "where all that stuff" has ended up.

The main goal of the emergency plan, which involved even the Army, was to set up variuous incinerators in the area around Naples. In the meantime the Goverment was stocking the "ready-to-burn" waste in temporary deposits around the city. 

By now, the only active incinerator is in Acerra and presents serious quality-control lacks. A system to extract and neutralize the dangerous waste doesn't exist yet and, most of all, the plant works only at the 50% of its possibilities. Blogs and newspapers reported that the incinerator is not able to burn neither the daily production of waste that comes from the surroundings, nor it disposed of the so-called 'eco-balls', right now stucked in deposits.

If we take a look at the images below it's easy to understand how "large" is the problem. The deposit called RDF1, according to google earth scale, covers almost one squared km of land, a never ending horizon trimmed with trash surrounded by farmlands.

The RDF 3 deposit gives even a better view, as it stays right beetween houses and industries.

These solutions had to be temporary, but the population is still waiting for the construction of other three incinerators, while the idea of be besieged by trash becomes every day more definitive. For how long should they wait for a solution which can be definitive and working without being dangerous for health?