Six hundred tonnes of rubbish from Naples has arrived in Cologne in Germany for incineration.
The delivery in part of an authorized scheme to dispose of 160,000 tonnes of waste from Italy's southern Campania region at special incinerators in Germany over the next few months. Many plants use the waste to generate Lufthansa pilots strike work over pay hike demand ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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