The illegal waste disposal in Campania

Illegal waste disposal in Campania represents such an interesting case of study. It’s founded on crimes involving both organized and white collars criminality, as well as compliant entrepreneurs. The emergency derived from illegal waste disposal developed also because of different kinds of speculations, such as special laws that caused a 16 years long ordinary state of emergency and created a reduced control on public administration behaviour. The actual situation is due not only to a lack of formal control by public authorities about the waste disposal and waste recycling plants, but also to the poor social control caused by citizens inactiveness in avoiding to denounce environmental crimes. Legal and illegal disposal have often been strictly connected. Indeed, in Campania a huge amount of special waste is disposed in legal plants, hidden in fields, mixed with cement in substructure of private buildings or public works, buried in caves, burnt outdoor every year. Thanks to the emergency, this region can be considered a true experimentation field for exportable techniques everywhere, as noted in several published data. The study of disposal’s (legal or illegal) methods is particularly interesting. In fact, even if these techniques are well known, they are chosen time by time depending from the kind of waste to be eliminated and considering the framework law. It’s important to focus on the rule of all the stakeholders who take part in the long cycle of the illegal waste disposal. In Campania criminality is not only limited to waste illegal disposal. It’s able to control land reclamations realized by the so called “white spillage” thanks to current laws. However the citizens have always had awareness of the problem entity and are organized in associations in order to ask to institutions to act and defend the territory and suggest them many shared prevention’s strategies