Trash cans in Italy

In Italy, trash bins are colored in the following way:

White: paper

Yellow: plastic

Blue: aluminum

Green: trash

Dumpsters on the street are similarly divided, but seemed to be variably colored/labeled. 

Venice was spotless, which I marveled at, given the inconvenience of getting trash off the island. You could frequently see trash collectors wheeling big carts through the alleys. At some point, these get taken down to the canals and loaded onto boats with lifter arms. I don't have a picture of that, so enjoy this cargo boat bringing in produce. 

Bologna had a grubby look about it but was pretty free of trash on the ground. 

Palermo was a bit dirtier around the market areas, but was still quite clean. 

Now Naples -- what a different story. Somehow, Naples doesn't have its trash collection infrastructure up to snuff. There's trash littered all over the street, despite being more dumpsters on every other corner. People don't clean up after their dogs, which is just part of the vicious cycle of already having trash on the ground that everyone's given up on. Anyway, it rained pretty much the first whole day we were in Naples, and man did the streets get gross. Avoiding dog turds was a full time job and I failed at it with all my gawking around. One guide said that Naples has only become a tourist destination in the last few years, so I hope the city either responds to rising tourist revenue or proactively chases it by tackling the trash problem.