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Subscribe to RSSThis is got to be pretty smelly by now. Not to mention attracting rodents and other garbage eaters.
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A mother carries her child through uncollected garbage on their way back from school in the historic Spanish district of Naples on November 22, 2010. As piles of malodorous garbage continued to accumulate in the streets of Naples, the total amount of uncollected waste in the city was likely to reach 3,600 tons by the end of the day, the Italian press said.
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The accumulation of rubbish in Naples reminded me of David Livingstone's comments on the value of dung beetles in his book Missionary Travels and Reseaches in South Africa written in 1857. On page 38 he writes 'As we recommend the eland to John Bull, and the gigantic frog to France, we can confidently recommend this beetle to the dirty Italian towns, and our own Sanitary Commissioners'.