Cerroni: “We need definitive solutions on waste, I wrote to Gualtieri”

“When you have a toothache you go to the best dentist on the square, right? Well, Rome has only one dentist and that’s me, it has had it for over half a century, in peace and in economy. For 60 years I have cleaned Rome, even in cheap, they put me in jail, the judge acquitted me and they don’t give a damn. The press has always been careful not to publish what was my cure and every morning they ask themselves if I’m dead. Today what should I say? million, nothing is resolved. We need to find non-temporary solutions for the serious management of waste. I wrote to the then candidates for mayors, that we need to make a plan so that by Christmas the waste is not moved but all treated and disposed of “. Manlio Cerroni, for years manager of the former Malagrotta landfill, speaks thus to Adnkronos the day after the extraordinary plan for cleaning the city illustrated by the newly elected mayor Roberto Gualtieri. “Rome needs an industrial, structural and definitive solution – he continues – ‘The solution’ I wrote last August both to Raggi and to Calenda, Michetti and Gualtieri, reminding the latter in a new letter on 23 October last. , just over a week ago. I declared myself ready, for Rome, to make my competence and passion, technologies and know-how available to the mayor free of charge to realize in three or four years a project of excellence capable of solving definitively the problem of waste. I also understand that Ambiente Guidonia proposed to the Ama, on 26 October last, an extraordinary intervention plan to treat 1500 tons per day and deal with the emergency, cleaning up the city by Christmas “.” That. what I read is, instead, that they will take the waste and deposit it on Ama pitches. But I know from direct experience that this movement is useless: the more garbage is touched the more it stinks. The sooner it is given a destination definitive the better, it does not have to be retouched. For a serious and definitive plan, more than 40 million is needed – concludes Cerroni – God only knows how many tens of millions of tons are scattered in the lower territory of the Municipality of Rome. Screaming, screaming, I’ve said it so many times that I broke down. We have reached a global shame “. (By Silvia Mancinelli)