“Rubble recycled in the foundations of the “Maritime Park” in Punta Marina and Marina di Ravenna: no citizen would have accepted that in the garden of his own home, instead of the agreed natural stone, more or less recycled building rubble was delivered to him, also telling him that the variant, never communicated before, would have been advantageous for the project and its garden. The complaint filed yesterday by the Court of Ravenna does not concern a private garden, but over 4 km of a State Natural Reserve and an area of state-owned maritime property on the Ravenna coast, subjected to a notable series of (theoretical) environmental, hydrogeological and landscapes, and declared to be of notable public interest.” Thus Italia Nostra Ravenna in a note.
“Cleaning campaigns for beaches and seas are organised, but it makes no difference if, in an area of potential flooding, recycled waste from demolitions is used instead of the natural crushed stone envisaged in the final approved specifications. The archiving of the matter therefore constitutes a very dangerous precedent which would not limit the use of materials and variations “ex post” without any prior notice or opinion… Only one small consolation remains: in the excerpts of the Maritime Park in progress the “beneficial” material “derived from construction waste has not been used at the moment, and our precious beaches, dunes and pine forest have been spared from what was buried in the first excerpt” concludes Italia Nostra section of Ravenna.
