(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - The 250 million European funds have been allocated to reclaim the site of the former Malagrotta landfill in Rome.
This was announced by the president of the Ecomafie Commission, Stefano Vignaroli, according to whom "it is finally a concrete step to safeguard citizens, the environment and health".
Vignaroli recalls that this is the "largest landfill in Europe, closed in 2013 by the mayor Marino, but never reclaimed, as the legislation on landfills envisaged and still provides today. A real monster".
The agreement between the Government, the Lazio Region and the Municipality of Rome has allowed the procedures for the capping operations of the Malagrotta landfill to be started, let the Region and the Capitol know.
"The completion of the interventions and the regeneration of the area" is expected "by 2025" declared Massimiliano Valeriani, Lazio Region Councilor for the Waste Cycle.
"We will immediately start a process of confrontation with the Municipalities concerned and with the residents of the Galeria Valley to build together with them a program of interventions for the construction of a large park and equipped areas, to ensure that what for decades has represented a serious environmental damage becomes a new opportunity for the redevelopment of this territory "adds Sabrina Alfonsi, Councilor for Agriculture, Environment and Waste Cycle of the Municipality of Rome.
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