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$Aereal view taken 10 January 2008 in a western suburb of Naples of Pianura dump which was closed in 1994 because of public health concerns. Pianura could take tens of thousands of tonnes of waste, but it would be only a fraction of the mountains of rubbish that has piled up in the Campania region around Naples, home to some six million people. Plans by the Italian government to deploy troops to help rid the Naples region of mountains of rubbish won a cautious welcome from residents and environmentalists as tensions eased at a toxic dump that has seen a series of violent protests.$

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Aereal view taken 10 January 2008 in a western suburb of Naples of Pianura dump which was closed in 1994 because of public health concerns. Pianura could take tens of thousands of tonnes of waste, but it would be only a fraction of the mountains of rubbish that has piled up in the Campania region around Naples, home to some six million people. Plans by the Italian government to deploy troops to help rid the Naples region of mountains of rubbish won a cautious welcome from residents and environmentalists as tensions eased at a toxic dump that has seen a series of violent protests.