Recycling doesn't exist 3/07/09
Mio marito had the meeting with the mayor yesterday about the ban on glass bottles outside. We were at a lovely beach with friends from Arezzo for the afternoon. He came back saying what a scene. Only about five of the original thirty locali representatives turned up. The guy from the noisy bar went mad saying he wanted the right to have the bottles outside and it was his right and they were stifling his business (understandable – they have little space inside). The capo dei carbinieri (chief of police) exploded and told him he would come and check on him and close him down if he found anything out of line and that he knew him and they were the noisiest bar and had many complaints from residents. Really? Strange that they don’t do anything about the complaints. So mio marito had to intervene and said this is all beside the point I want to propose we look after the borgo and put more recycling bins and collect the rubbish because no one comes to clean the streets in the borgo. The mayor...