It's sad to say, but in the Eternal City - never Europe's cleanest to begin with - residents and visitors alike have been for months having to cope with mountains of trash as well as increasingly potholed streets, as Rome's Five-Star party mayor has cluelessly flailed about (tthough to be fair, she is up against generations of corruption in which the Mafia has thoroughly infiltrated municipal trash collection). There have been mass protests, and a month ago


Though this Thompson Reuters is from back in October, it does a good job of outlining the scope of the crisis: http://news.trust.org/item/20181027123926-ta6zh/