ROME -- New Mayor Virginia Raggi has received a resounding ‘no’ from the councils of Umbria and surrounding towns in the Lazio region in response to her request for help in managing the capital’s endless rubbish crisis.

 The Eternal City has been in a waste emergency for some time now, and it has now been made clear that this is a problem that Rome will have to deal with alone. Raggi had asked the councils of Umbria and other Lazio towns for assistance in dealing with managing the city’s endless mountain of rubbish, but her requests have been firmly rejected on every front.

 “The Mayor of Rome has chosen a highly competent Environment Councillor, and therefore would do well to get a proper explanation of how waste removal actually works,” said the Environment Councillor for the region of Umbria, Fernanda Cecchini. “Maybe she is not aware that municipal waste must be and should be disposed of in the same region where it was produced,” she added.

 To make herself totally clear, Cecchini continued to say that “Umbria declares its complete unwillingness to accommodate Rome’s waste. Our goal is to ensure the longest possible life for Umbria’s own landfills, and we will work exclusively for the service of our own community.”

 A similar response was given by the council of Cassino, a town in the south of the Lazio region, whose Mayor, Carlo Maria D’Alessandro, stated that “the emergency in the capital must not and cannot fall upon other territories such as our own,” adding “I am ready, along with all the other mayors of the surrounding area, to put in place all necessary measures so that Rome’s waste cannot be put in our landfill sites.”

The Mayor of San Vittore del Lazio, Nadia Bucci, also expressed her unwillingness to aid Rome in its rubbish crisis, saying “It’s a no from us. “Raggi cannot and should not solve Rome’s rubbish crisis using our territory.”

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