Water Causes Trash?

Who would have thought that water causes trash? The Venetian people don't need to think it, they know it. With Italians being one of the world leading consumers of bottled water, at 40 gallons per person per year, they know this fact better than most.


Now this doesn't help their trash bill either, considering the cost to remove a ton of trash from Venice costs nearly 300% more than it costs to remove a ton of trash from Italy's mainland. Venice's going rate is $335 per ton of trash; that really doesn't help when cruise ships dock in its harbor and unload so many tourists that the population of the city increases up to 15%, all in a short amount of time.

Article cites NYTimes article found here