Donkeys replace waste trucks in green Sicily town
Tue, 2007-02-20 14:03
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Agent 204
Donkeys replace waste trucks in green Sicily town
Tue, 2007-02-20 14:03
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Agent 204
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CASTELBUONO, Sicily (Reuters Life!) - The rattle of refuse trucks can no longer be heard over the cobbled streets of Castelbuono. The Sicilian town has swapped them for green alternatives: donkeys collect the trash.Once a sign of poverty in southern Italy, the humble working donkey has now become a vision of things to come, according to Mayor Mario Cicero, who says the animals are cheaper and emit less greenhouse gas than trucks.
"We had this idea to continue along our virtuous path, looking at new initiatives -- even if this one is natural and practical -- in order to come up with something to improve our environment," said Cicero.
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Tue, 2007-02-20 14:53
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Sven
quote:
Originally posted by Agent 204:
[b]The Sicilian town has swapped them for green alternatives: donkeys collect the trash. Once a sign of poverty in southern Italy, the humble working donkey has now become a vision of things to come...[/b]
In other news, the citizens of that quaint village will soon be hearing the call, "Bring out yer dead...bring out yer dead...bring out yer dead...etc." by a man walking next to a wooden cart pulled by a donkey. The village leaders felt that the use of fossil fuel-burning hearses and embalming chemicals was a thing of the past.
Luigi Pastalori, the village mayor, said, "Pulling a cart periodically through the streets of our town to pick up the earthly remains of our recently departed and the use of a simple potters' grave as their final resting place was far more earth friendly than the discontinued alternative."
[b][i]Note[/b][/i]: My apologies to those not familiar with the Monty Python scene alluded to above.