Among the lucrative rackets for the Mafia groups in Italy is dumping toxic and other waste which generates 20 billion euros or nearly $30 billion a year according to the annual Ecomafia report by the environmental organization Legambiente as reported by Michael Day for The Independent:
Campania, the region around Naples whose streets are perpetually carpeted in piles of stinking garbage, is the worst-hit part of the country, it is claimed. The local mafia, the Camorra, is frequently blamed for exacerbating or even causing the rubbish crisis – by encouraging the closure of official incineration plants – in order to fan demand for its illegal dumping services.
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