Among Rome's many unsustainable records is that of its abandoned gas stations, reduced to veritable ecological bombs. For several years now, the stations have been closing, especially in central areas, but they remain the main sources of pollution, starting with underground tanks and fuel-contaminated soil. And to this is added a sort of transformation. of the freed soil which becomes an open-air mini-landfill.
Many service stations close because they're no longer profitable, especially small ones or those located in congested areas. Once decommissioned, the land remains unused for years. Gas stations have underground tanks and potential fuel contamination, and before any useful and non-polluting reuse, environmental cleanup is required, which can be expensive and time-consuming. Until this is done, the area remains closed. Once abandoned, these areas, which generally have open yards and direct road access, become easy places to dump:
- mobile,
- home appliances,
- rubble,
- mattresses
- bulky waste.
The result is to waste the availability of an area that could become of public utility (a garden, a small playground for children, etc..) and to add to the Roman landscape, already full of rubbish and waste abandoned everywhere, also the havoc of the pumps. of disused petrol stations reduced to open-air mini-landfills.
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