Salerno's mayor, Vincenzo De Luca, has said the city intends to seek tougher penalties for unlicensed parking attendants, people who rummage through unsorted waste, and those who dump bulky waste illegally, with particular attention to the historic centre.

The statement was reported by Il Mattino Salerno during the handover of the first 600 sensor-equipped waste bins for non-domestic food businesses, described in the report as part of a project financed with PNRR funds. The article presents the figure and the funding link as reported, without independent verification available in the sources consulted.

According to the report, the proposal was prepared with the municipal police. What the municipality can actually change, and what would require national measures on illegal parking activity, remains undefined in the reporting. The research found no documented outcome for the proposed tougher penalties and no confirmation of which national measures, if any, were finally approved or entered into force.

What the proposal covers

The reported proposal focuses on three behaviors:

  • unlicensed parking attendants operating on city streets;
  • scavenging through unsorted waste containers;
  • dumping bulky waste, especially in the historic centre.

The precise legal form of the tougher penalties, and whether formal measures against specific individuals followed, were not documented in the sources acquired.

A separate check on the seafront

A separate initiative on Lungomare Trieste was described by LiraTV as an evening enforcement action by the mayor against unlicensed street trading. That report links the action to a broader urban-security policy, but it is distinct from the waste and illegal-parking proposal reported by Il Mattino.

Readers should therefore not confuse the two episodes: one concerns proposed penalties for parking attendants and waste scavenging and dumping; the other concerns controls against unlicensed commerce on the seafront.

What residents can use now: city waste services

For readers in Salerno, the city's official environmental-services page names Salerno Pulita as the company responsible for street and square cleaning and sweeping, separate waste collection, management of ecological islands, and collection of bulky items.

The municipality points residents with durable and bulky waste to its collection centres at Fratte and Arechi. Using those centres, rather than leaving bulky items beside containers or in the historic centre's streets, is the practical alternative identified in the official city information.

The available sources do not give a precise date for the bin-handover episode or further detail on the PNRR financing beyond what Il Mattino reported. Until the municipality publishes the text of any formal proposal, the mayor's remarks remain an announced intention rather than a confirmed change in penalties.