Is Switzerland right to refuse rubbish from Naples ?

The editorialist Chantal Tauxe bitterly deplores the Geneva authorities' refusal to deal with some of rubbish that the city of Naples accumulated. "Whether or not it ends up disintegrating in our factories, the Neapolitan refuse has besmirched us. We find ourselves with a new sort of environmentalist: nationalist ecologists, appointed Greens or flaky electoral ecologists who don't want to see the Campanile's waste burnt here, even if it were to temporarily guarantee the profitability of our oversized factories. To put it crudely, the Italians are being told to keep their shit! On the perfect ecological planet that these new self-righteous ayatollahs brandish as a reference, waste should certainly be burnt near its source. ... [But] facing climate imbalance and pollution we have to show solidarity and lend a hand."

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