Update your Cookie Settings to use this feature.
Click 'Allow All' or just activate the 'Targeting Cookies'
By continuing you accept Avaaz's Privacy Policy which explains how your data can be used and how it is secured.
Got it
We use cookies to analyse how visitors use this website and to help us provide you the best possible experience. View our Cookie Policy .
OK
Stop the Apuan Alps's destruction

Stop the Apuan Alps's destruction

1 have signed. Let's get to
50 Supporters

Close

Complete your signature

,
By continuing you agree to receive Avaaz emails. Our Privacy Policy will protect your data and explains how it can be used. You can unsubscribe at any time. If you are under 13 years of age in the USA or under 16 in the rest of the world, please get consent from a parent or guardian before proceeding.
This petition has been created by Giulio M. and may not represent the views of the Avaaz community.
Giulio M.
started this petition to
Il Presidente della Regione Toscana Enrico Rossi., A tutti i Consiglieri della Regione Toscana, Ministro dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Dario Franceschini, Ministro dell'Ambiente, Gian Luca Galletti
Thanks to modern technology, about 300 marble quarries of the Apuan Alps district are inflicting to the mountains the worst environmental disaster in Europe.

The quarries on the ridge and processing waste pollute springs and rivers , trucks foul the air of particulate matter , the big works (tunnels, viaducts, already carried out or designed) worsen the hydrogeological instability, which increases geometrically from year to year endangering the health and safety of the inhabitants. About 9 million tons of marble are produced each year, the 3/4 broken into flakes mostly intended for the building and for the production of calcium carbonate to make toothpaste, paper bleaches, and paradoxical filters to the aqueducts, certainly not to provide blocks to Michelangelo.

We must gradually close all the quarries , converting the local economy into sustainable ways.




Posted (Updated )