NAPLES, Italy, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A garbage-crisis in Naples, Italy, intensified with piles of trash set afire in the streets of the seaport city and a demonstrator injured, police said Monday,
Refuse filled the streets despite Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's promise that the mess would be cleaned up by the start of this week, ANSA reported.
"The situation is still serious, with an estimated 1,750 tons of uncollected refuse on the ground," one official said.
Many piles of trash were set afire Sunday night, the Italian news agency said.
The condition of the injured demonstrator was not reported.
On Friday, Berlusconi said it would take three days to clear up the trash and 10 to resolve the crisis, but residents still fear a landfill set to reopen will be toxic.
The trash uprising began when the government started enlarging a dumping site near Terzigno, which is near Mount Vesuvius.
A new trash-processing facility opened in Naples last year but it can only take garbage that has been presorted, a task the region's broken waste-collection system has been largely incapable of doing.
