Pollution, unauthorized use, waste: the sea is increasingly under siege
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From pollution to illegal building, from bad purification to poor waste management, to the assault on fish stocks and biodiversity, in 2022 along the Italian coasts there were 13,229 disputed infringements, equal to 1.8 violations for every kilometer of it costs. Administrative offences, equal to 8,499 (+24.2% compared to 2021) and penalties, 8,935 imposed (+47.7%) increased. On the other hand, the number of crimes decreased (4,730, -32.9%) and of people reported or arrested (4,844, -43.6%) and kidnappings (1,623, -51.7%), for an economic value of more than 385 million euros. Campania confirms itself first in the standings: in 2022 it counted 1,245 crimes and alone represents 26.3% of the national total. Follow Puglia, Lazio, Calabria and Sicily. These are some of the data released by Legambiente in a preview of the ‘Mare Monstrum’ dossier on the illegalities connected with sea pollution relating to waste management, discharges and bad purification, the result of processing data from the forces of order and Port authorities.
The intervention
The Salvamare law can no longer wait for the implementing decrees immediately
The environmental association illustrates five proposals for proceeding towards the full and effective purification of waste water: relaunching the construction and adaptation and/or regulation of sewage and purification systems at national and local level; valorise the purified wastewater with complete reuse in strategic sectors such as agriculture; strengthen and make more efficient the controls of regional environmental protection agencies and law enforcement agencies against illegal discharges; regulate the discharge into the sea of liquid waste (for example black and gray water, bilge water); promote active policies for the prevention of waste production and recycling and for the best protection of the sea and the coast.
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In Campania in 2022 there were 989 people reported and arrested, 496 kidnappings, 1,273 administrative offenses (+45.7% on 2021) and 1,247 penalties (+42.7%). In second place for the number of crimes goes Puglia (last year fourth) which in 2022 counted 559 crimes, equal to 11.8% of the national total. Lazio follows with 539 crimes (11.4% of the total) but which ranks second in terms of number of people reported and arrested (673) and kidnappings (216 carried out). Calabria (second in terms of administrative offenses and penalties, respectively 1,018 and 1,062) is in fourth place with 344 crimes, followed by Sicily, which with 336 crimes drops by two positions compared to the 2021 ranking. Sixth is Emilia-Romagna with 271 crimes. Legambiente underlines the incidence of crimes connected to the polluted sea in the four regions with a traditional mafia presence (Campania, Puglia, Calabria and Sicily) which rises from 51.8% in 2021 to 52.5% in 2022.
This is also an opportunity to announce that with the motto ‘We will never stop’ the Goletta Verde (June 30th from Genoa) and the Goletta dei Laghi (June 29th from Lake Santa Croce in Veneto) set sail, the two historic Legambiente campaigns that aim to “not let our guard down on the quality of marine and lake waters and on the abuses that disfigure coasts and shores”. On board the Golettes, explains Legambiente, also virtuous proposals and experiences against the climate crisis and for the protection of the sea and lakes: from off-shore wind power to the enhancement of biodiversity, up to the virtuous supply chains of the circular economy and green chemistry”.
Pollution
Goletta Verde’s balance on coasts and lakes: bad purification for 32% of the samples
“The health of our seas and lakes can no longer wait – explains Giorgio Zampetti, director general of Legambiente – The data of ‘Mare Monstrum’ and the annual monitoring of our schooners, but also the four infringement procedures of the EU say so active towards Italy in terms of collection, sewerage and purification which have already cost 142 million Euros Stop illegal discharges immediately and make the best use of Pnrr funds to build new treatment plants and implement existing ones, in favor of reuse of water and sludge recovery, and completing the sewage system must be the priorities for the Government”.
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