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Because the ingredients of the rubbish crisis in Naples are all present in Ireland: complete reliance on landfill, rampant NIMBYism regarding incinerators, and media focus always on protestors rather than the longer term consequences of different methods of garbage disposal. And just as Romania saying no to any more Italian rubbish seems to have tipped the Neapolitan crisis over the edge, at some point ditches in Northern Ireland will be full of illegally dumped rubbish from the Republic.
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