Waste in Palermo, the City: a thousand fines so far this year – Giornale di Sicilia

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PALERMO. were 15 transportation seized and fined more than a thousand people, of which 49 are reported by municipal police officers to surrender illegal or irregular waste, in Palermo so far this year. This was announced by the city administration, which decided the strengthening of controls by the local police.

So were deployed 55 police officers between core operating environment , core protection decorum livability and urban hygiene and control Core Rap, with the aid of cameras, currently being tested, that the coming weeks will be used permanently for stalking distance.

15/2 seized and used for the illegal transport of waste, they know by the City , have been identified thanks to the connection between rap and the municipal police, who carried out a work exchange of data concerning the location of landfills usual , thus allowing a better job of prevention. In particular, were the 595 high fines for environmental crimes (uncontrolled abandonment of waste, lack of identification form during transport, disposal of waste outside the time allowed compared to municipal regulation), a total of just under 67,000 euro. To these should be added 451 fines for failure to comply with the recycling of waste for a total of about 21 000 euro.

Overall, therefore, high fines have been 1,010 to just over 87 thousand euro. “These numbers – said the mayor Leoluca Orlando – indicate that while the administration is committed to provide the Rap of new media that will be in operation soon and sanctioned behaviors that in the same Rap wanted to perpetuate some bad habits of Amia, it is essential that all citizens understand that the offenses and illegalities related to the theme of waste are illegal and lawlessness committed against all of us, are crimes that damage the environment ‘environment and threaten our health, are facts which we all pay because the removal of illegal landfills has high costs for the whole community. “

part of Orlando also a further innovation, the’ Start of remote controls thanks to the cameras provided to firefighters. “We have equipped the municipal police – says the mayor – new tools and resources through which you can start to stalking and the tightening of controls in bourgeois supported by technological tools that allow us to take the perpetrators of the offenses. “

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