Trieste is indeed affected by pollution. The problem is worsened by the Authorities’ involvement. Unlike other places, they are accomplices of the polluters.

…the Province ordered the vines be removed: a landfills is unsuitable to produce food. But how is it possible that the illegal activities continued for years?
27 January 2016: Roberto Giurastante presents the new edition of TRACKS OF LEGALITY – how Italian corruptions and mafias pollute the Free Territory of Trieste.
Behind Trieste’s landfills, part 3. Nobody talks about it. For decades, the truth was carefully hidden to protect the local establishment.
Those responsible of the Free Territory of Trieste’s environmental disaster face increasing difficulty as the truth surfaces.
This is the same judge who the people contested in July 2013, during a trial against me, in which I exercised my rights as citizen of the Free Territory.