Italian artist Graziano Cecchini decided to protest the halt on garbage collection in Italy… how? By making more garbage! But cute, colorful, fun garbage in the form of 50,000 balls. I think he wanted to make a ball pit out of the Piazza di Spagna… apparently nobody warned him what those are like in McDonalds.
It does beg an interesting question though – what to do with all of the garbage. I mean we accumulate this stuff continuously, if we reached a critical mass where would we put it that wouldn’t hurt the environment?

The impact on Naples has been pretty bad – nobody wants to buy products from the area anymore because they might be contaminated. There’s talk of building a modern incinerator to help ease the problem (or you could just talk to the mob and get it dumped in eastern Europe) but I suspect they’re going to need a more long-term solution. Time will tell…