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The Eternal City drowns under piles of uncollected rubbish




Picture source: Sky News

Rome, the Eternal City, is fast becoming a giant trash pile as rubbish bins overflow across many districts.

The Italian capital produces around 1.7m tons of waste every year, but the problem is that there’s nowhere to put it as the city’s only landfill closed down six years ago. Rome has had a problem with waste accumulation ever since.

Local authorities are now warning that the combination of extremely high temperatures and open waste bins everywhere will likely cause health hazards as dogs, cats, rodents, and other animals pick away the rubbish and move around, potentially spreading disease.

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