A permanent crisis, please

Mafia expert Chiara Marasca comments on the Camorra's role in Italy's refuse crisis: "The Camorra has no interest in a solution to the crisis. It earns huge sums of money through obscure state-private enterprises. ... Rubbish is at least as lucrative as the drug trade or the building sector, where the organisation can secure public contracts. ... In the past, the Camorra ... has made offers to northern Italian firms to remove their hazardous waste on the cheap. The waste then landed in caves or on open fields. But it also deals in normal household rubbish. At the height of the crisis when the dumps are full, as they are now ... it can step in and offer alternative dumps or have the refuse vanish. The Camorra sees no need for waste incineration plants. The good thing about dumps is that sooner or later they are full, and others are needed. What the Camorra wants is a permanent crisis."

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