Since that moment, the chemical environment of Genoa Federico Valerio responded on Facebook: "The waxy cuticle of pine needles is a great trap for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the air and absorbed on particulate matter. Then think about the sun and bacteria to degrade these toxic compounds subtracted from pine to the atmosphere."
The pines are therefore our allies to absorb its carcinogenic PAHs that are the main poison in the air that you breathe in Taranto. The "-eating" function of these and other trees is demonstrated in several studies also available in the network. PAHs are those that also contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons benzo (a) pyrene, a highly carcinogenic molecule that comes up in large part.
Institutions give assurances that the cut trees will be replaced "with other tree species," but they will be very small compared to pine trees that were 20 to 40 years old and coming up to the third floor of the building and that made shadow.
Those pines were not sick, they were not hunched, and their branches had not fallen and had not caused any damage to either cars or people passing by.
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The justification that the pine trees, with their roots, would irreparably damage sidewalks does not hold water at all, but it seems to be the official one. To understand how implausible enough to see the movie made right on the spot of the cut.
The pictures clearly indicate that, rather than adequately treating the maintenance of sidewalks and trees, the City chose to cut the pines. On the trees, who cannot speak, are unleashed again the sins of men.
The truth is that in the city where people are dying due to pollution (as established by the judiciary), it is a crime to cut the poison-eating pines, perhaps to save a few Euros on the maintenance of sidewalks.
And all this in Taranto, where there are only 0.2 square meters of green space per head. In the average Italian is 30 square meters. By law we should have 9 square meters of green space per head, as it says in article 3, paragraph c) of the DM 1444/1968.
Taranto is a city with the least green in Italy. A part of the public green is even fenced and must be tempered by the presence of dioxin.
In the Drums district children are forbidden to play in the green. Nonetheless they cut those few trees that remain.
On the basis of the Aarhus Convention (adopted by Law 108/2001) citizens were consulted and made partakers of the choices from the very beginning of the design phase of the intervention. The citizens had the right to propose alternative solutions to the cutting of trees.
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