Six million tons of garbage remain scattered across Naples’ region

Evidence

Aside from pizza, crime, and poverty, Naples has become synonymous with garbage. In 2007 and 2008, trash went uncollected for weeks at a time. It lined roadsides, clogged city streets, and piled into mountains surrounding communal collection areas. Six million metric tons of garbage remain scattered at dumpsites around Campania. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 325

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the garbage crisis causally linked to organized crime control of waste-disposal contracts, which the base presence may abet?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 325
• XREF: connects to: Campania accumulated six million metric tons of uncollected garbage
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Campania accumulated six million metric tons of uncollected garbage

Broader Connections

• Campania accumulated six million metric tons of uncollected garbage #corroborates (0.95)