San Vitaliano: the anti-pizza mayor becomes an international case
San Vitaliano: the anti-pizza mayor becomes an international case

Video: San Vitaliano: the anti-pizza mayor becomes an international case

Video: San Vitaliano: the anti-pizza mayor becomes an international case
Video: UNTV: Why News (August 28, 2017) 2024, March
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After the total blocking of traffic in Milan and the alternating number plates in Rome, the mayors prepare the anti-smog handbook.

And yet, to intrigue half the world, is news that comes from San Vitaliano, a town of six thousand souls in the province of Naples, in the middle of the Land of Fires, where the mayor Antonio Falcone has asked for the stop until Spring pizzas cooked in a wood oven accused of polluting too much.

It is not enough. By February 29, 2016, the premises with a wood oven will have to install expensive blast chillers to reduce emissions.

The story, which even the BBC has covered, is this.

The latest report by Legambiente on the healthiness of the air in the small town in Campania contains alarming data: for 114 days San Vitaliano exceeded the limit of fine dust allowed by law. To give you an idea, Milan had 86 days of maximum pollution and Naples 56.

As a rule, when the fine particles in the air reach similar levels, industries are blamed, which however are lacking in San Vitaliano, and even the traffic is certainly not that of a metropolis.

Hence the mayor's ordinance which obliges bakers and pizza chefs to adapt their systems (in practice, not to use fuels such as pellets, wood, charcoal), in order to eliminate about 80% of the fine dust present in the air.

The legislation will be valid until March 30, 2016 and will then resume in the autumn.

The pizza chefs' revolt is predictable, also because a fine dust remover costs at least 20 thousand euros.

The air has no barriers, explains one of the town's historic bakers, the powders do not necessarily come from pizzerias and bakeries. If the results of the new analyzes do not give improvements, they are all willing to denounce the Mayor Antipizza, (also Antipanuozzi, another specialty of San Vitaliano).

Are wood-burning ovens the real cause of smog? Naples has many more pizzerias than San Vitaliano but has never reached those levels of pollution.

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