It is enough to take a simple walk through the streets of the city to realize the widespread degradation and waste that can now be found on every corner. A situation evident to all, which clashes strongly with the increasingly high cost of the TARI paid by citizens.
That the separate waste collection system is unable to reach optimal levels is now plain for everyone to see and, at this point, also unbearable. But what is most worrying is the absolute inability, demonstrated in recent months, to seriously address the issue of urban decorum and the daily cleanliness of the city.
«Given these results – states Mura – it is absurd to continue to imprison Cagliari in the same system of separate waste collection and urban hygiene for 18 years: from 2017 to 2026 and now with another nine years already planned. A model that has already demonstrated all its limitations.”
In the city councilor’s sights is the so-called “revolution” announced by the council led by the mayor, together with the councilor for urban ecology, environment and public greenery Luisa Giua Marassi. «The wonderful world of Massi and Luisa – underlines Mura – is actually what citizens have already experienced in these nine years: Sky-high tariffs and clearly inadequate cleanliness of the city».
According to Mura, there has been no real change of pace, but only the continuation of a system that penalizes virtuous citizens and does not guarantee decorum and quality of life. «It is urgent to change course – he concludes – by valorising the many people who carry out separate waste collection correctly, installing neighborhood eco-islands with video surveillance, as happens in the rest of the world, and investing structural and constant resources in the daily cleaning of the city».
Urban decorum, for the city councilor, is not a detail but a priority. «Continuing to talk about a city that doesn’t exist means remaining prisoners of a narrative light years away from the reality that citizens live every day», he concludes.
