{"id":3338,"date":"2008-07-07T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/07\/07\/naples-needs-to-learn-from-wall-e\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:11","slug":"naples-needs-to-learn-from-wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/07\/07\/naples-needs-to-learn-from-wall-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Naples needs to learn from WALL-E."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast weekend I went and saw the animated flick WALL-E<\/a>. While the movie is obviously marketed towards children, the storyline is certainly one for adults to pay close attention to. WALL-E is the last thing on Earth — either robot or living organism — spending his time cleaning up the mountains of trash left behind by humans 700 years ago. Some of the city vistas in the movie have soaring skyscrapers, but beside them are just as tall piles of garbage.Its an apt commentary<\/a> on our consumer culture, but since its set so far into the future we can easily dismiss it as a fanciful tale. Or at least that’s what I thought until I saw this iReport (CNN’s user-generated web site) which shows the horrible state of garbage collection in Naples, Italy. Local residents throw their garbage on the side of the road due to the lack of waste collection services provided by the local and regional governments.<\/p>\n

While Torontonians complain about the new recycling bins, we should also pause to realize how lucky we are to have a system that is able to collect most of our waste and not create the horrible conditions founds in Naples, one of the most beautiful cities int he world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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