After the Christmas holidays in Rome, the waste emergency returns and immediately the controversy over responsibility flares up.
In an all-out attack, the CGIL points the finger at the Ama and threatens the stamped papers.
"Rome is dirty and Ama continues to hire managers without selections or with very questionable procedures", writes the secretary of the CGIL of Rome and Lazio Natale Di Cola on his social profile.
"Under the holidays a new flash procedure to hire the sixth manager from August to today. The Capitol - warns the trade unionist - intervene or this story too will end up in our complaint that we are preparing for the Court of Auditors".
The response from the Ama arrives shortly, letting it be known that it has "complied with all the rules" and "that the selection has brought professionalism absent so far to Ama,
The selection currently underway - the AMA informs again - "will be useful if it is successful in recruiting the head of development of the municipal AMA; an objective repeatedly declared of primary importance by the sole shareholder".
Lastly, the municipalized Roman company highlights, not without controversy, "how the company management has never succumbed to the temptation to improperly perform the role of trade union manager, while unfortunately we are witnessing the opposite clumsy attempt".
So the overflowing bins and many, many cardboard boxes along the sidewalks are back in the capital.
Images that immediately, thanks to smartphones, arrived on social networks, fueling the opposition, which spoke of an "open-air rubbish bin" and a "perennial emergency".
But Ama, the Roman waste company, announced in the evening that "the cleaning and collection operations are taking place regularly" and that indeed "the huge amount of waste produced, as always during Christmas night, was almost all collected within yesterday's day", Santo Stefano.
In any case, the crux always seems to be the usual, age-old one of the 'Rome system', namely plant engineering: "The public Tmb of Rocca Cencia - explained the company - was also open on the 25th and 26th, and as of this morning, third-party plants, both inside and outside the city, have also resumed receiving waste materials that need to be treated".
Two days, therefore, all on the shoulders of a single plant, despite the fact that the operators were employed at full capacity and indeed "with an extra effort compared to previous years": 1,700 at Christmas and 2,100 the day after, no shifts missed in the two days , and for all the Holidays collecting cardboard boxes from shops seven days a week.
Ama also refers to teams of technicians who continue to prepare targeted interventions near the "trash bin locations most subject to limited abandonments", which were already carried out yesterday morning "in some areas of the neighborhoods of Tor Bella Monaca, Primavalle, Trullo, Cinecittà Est , Bastogi and Aurelius".
To these, we must add the cleaning principals in the historic squares of the Center but also in those "
An effort which however evidently did not convince the opposition: "While the mayor Gualtieri is intent on organizing concerts and various parties - say the councilors of FdI Federico Rocca and Rachele Mussolini - in the city there is waste everywhere and non-existent collection. A bleak postcard that risks to horrify the inspectors of Expo 2030 expected shortly. The mayor has staked everything on the waste-to-energy plant, which will not see the light of day before 2026".
For Fabrizio Santori, leader of the League, "Ama registers yet another flop: the agreements to increase staff on holidays with bonuses and performance bonuses were useless".