Politics | 06/30/2008 1:00 pm

Sophia Loren Trash Talks Her Home City

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Sophia Loren is fed up with the excess garbage crowding up the city she grew up in, and is desperately pleading to get the area cleaned up, reports The Dallas Morning News. Since December, Naples and surrounding areas have been plagued by tons of trash left in the streets. Collectors stopped picking up the garbage because dumps are overflowing, and locals have protested the building of new ones. And because trash isn’t being picked up, it is now piling up along beaches and in the countryside.

The 73-year-old actress and Academy Award winner is pleading with the people to help clean up.

"I beg you, with my hands clasped in prayer, to multiply efforts to remedy … this tragedy," she said to the Italian daily La Repubblica.

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I’ve heard about the Naples trash. One wonders what they can possibly do with it as I think that by now, they are overwhelmed with it. Even when my son was there 20 years ago as a Sea Duty Marine, he commented on how dirty the city was. And, to think this is only one of many cities in the world in this shape. I hope that someday R&D teams somewhere will figure out how to convert garbage into fuel,insulation and other building materials. Recycling is the answer over time, but god knows what the immediate answer is.

By Diana T on 06/30/2008 12:13 pm

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The trash debacle in Naples is ridiculous. Certainly there is an enterprising person somewhere on our planet that can create a plan to turn this pile of lemons into lemonade (or maybe limoncello). I wonder what the recycling habit/code is like in Naples and how what percentage of the population composts its plant, vegetable and paper waste matter. Composting makes so much sense.

By E . on 06/30/2008 12:19 pm