Italian Activists Protest Against Local Waste Incinerator Plant Expansion

ACERRA, ITALY - OCTOBER 14: People marching with signs showing environmentalist slogans during an environmental demonstration against the expansion of the waste-to-energy plant in Pantano on October 14, 2023 in Acerra, Italy. Citizens and environmental activists demonstrated against the hypothesis of expansion with the 4th line of the Acerra waste-to-energy plant. Acerra is a small town north of Naples, in an area defined as the triangle of death or land of fires, affected in the past by the presence of dioxins in the soil and in the blood of pastoral animals. Since March 1 2009, a waste-to-energy plant has been active, an energy recovery plant from shredded dry waste that generates energy for 200,000 families. At the end of June 2023 Acerra has already reached the maximum limit allowed by law regarding annual exceedances of fine dust. (Photo by Ivan Romano/Getty Images)