by furiofromnaples » Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:56 am
https://thebadgeronline.com/2025/02/nap ... -epidemic/
Starting in the 1980s, Italy was experiencing a crisis regarding management of toxic waste/waste disposal with over-flowing waste sites and a lack of a regional waste management plan (the problem was particularly large in the Naples region). Camorra clans stepped into this crisis, purchasing land that would be ultimately used for storage of excess waste.
Indeed, a large swath of land about 25 kilometers north of Naples became a site of illegal toxic waste dumping linked to the Camorra. Due to the large number of cancer-associated deaths and other environmental impacts, the area has taken on the nickname the ‘Triangle of Death’.
Closer examination & investigation suggest that both the initial waste crisis itself, as well as the ‘solution’ of dumping said waste north of Naples, were manufactured by various Camorra clans. From the 1980s, many clans have taken control of waste disposal industries in (and even outside) Naples, creating a lucrative business model by charging less than ‘official’ waste disposal industries and evading gov’t regulation.
400 businesses in central and northern Italy were (or are actively) using Camorra-linked waste disposal firms, with the waste (often consisting of heavy metals, toxins, chemicals, & standard ‘rubbish’) being dumped just north of Naples. It is estimated that by 2008, >11 million tons of waste had been burned or buried at the ‘Triangle of Death’.
Arrested Camorra member Nunzio Perella informed authorities that clans were pulling in upwards of 20 billion Euros / year by carrying out in excess of 31,000 environmental/dumping crimes a year with their waste hauling rackets.
Per the reporting, there has been a rapid rise in cancer in the region (40% increase in women; 47% increase in men) as well as in cancer-associated deaths. In fact, a January, 2025 report from the European Court of Human rights indicated that Italy had violated the rights of nearly 3 million people who were living around the Triangle, with the court further ordering the gov’t to develop a strategy to resolve the contamination and monitor health problems (including cancer) more closely in the region.
These actions also had negative ramifications on the economy of southern Italy. With much of the land around the dump site used for agriculture and farming, and with risks from products raised or created in that land, dairy products, cheeses, and other goods have seen a collapse in their market as countries have banned exports from the region (thousands of cattle were also forced to be terminated due to contamination).
https://thebadgeronline.com/2025/02/napolis-triangle-of-death-how-the-mafia-caused-a-cancer-epidemic/
Starting in the 1980s, Italy was experiencing a crisis regarding management of toxic waste/waste disposal with over-flowing waste sites and a lack of a regional waste management plan (the problem was particularly large in the Naples region). Camorra clans stepped into this crisis, purchasing land that would be ultimately used for storage of excess waste.
Indeed, a large swath of land about 25 kilometers north of Naples became a site of illegal toxic waste dumping linked to the Camorra. Due to the large number of cancer-associated deaths and other environmental impacts, the area has taken on the nickname the ‘Triangle of Death’.
Closer examination & investigation suggest that both the initial waste crisis itself, as well as the ‘solution’ of dumping said waste north of Naples, were manufactured by various Camorra clans. From the 1980s, many clans have taken control of waste disposal industries in (and even outside) Naples, creating a lucrative business model by charging less than ‘official’ waste disposal industries and evading gov’t regulation.
400 businesses in central and northern Italy were (or are actively) using Camorra-linked waste disposal firms, with the waste (often consisting of heavy metals, toxins, chemicals, & standard ‘rubbish’) being dumped just north of Naples. It is estimated that by 2008, >11 million tons of waste had been burned or buried at the ‘Triangle of Death’.
Arrested Camorra member Nunzio Perella informed authorities that clans were pulling in upwards of 20 billion Euros / year by carrying out in excess of 31,000 environmental/dumping crimes a year with their waste hauling rackets.
Per the reporting, there has been a rapid rise in cancer in the region (40% increase in women; 47% increase in men) as well as in cancer-associated deaths. In fact, a January, 2025 report from the European Court of Human rights indicated that Italy had violated the rights of nearly 3 million people who were living around the Triangle, with the court further ordering the gov’t to develop a strategy to resolve the contamination and monitor health problems (including cancer) more closely in the region.
These actions also had negative ramifications on the economy of southern Italy. With much of the land around the dump site used for agriculture and farming, and with risks from products raised or created in that land, dairy products, cheeses, and other goods have seen a collapse in their market as countries have banned exports from the region (thousands of cattle were also forced to be terminated due to contamination).