You made some very good points, SamuM. Indeed, Mafia (or, better said, its Neapolitan incarnation, Camorra) does not control waste incineration. One correction, though: there WAS a subsidy for waste incineration in Italy until last year. It was called CIP6; it was money that should have gone to renewable energy, but with a creative sleight of hand it went mostly to incineration. It was a huge amount of money that went mainly to the North. Mafia is an universal concept, but the real thing - southern Italian - never seemed to be interested in controlling incineration. Apparently, they much preferred to import toxic waste from Northern Europe and dump it in the countryside. I suppose that it gave them higher profits. Mafia or Camorra are very efficient in their own ways. The story is more complex than this and I myself wouldn't be able to unravel all the details. It is an unsolved problem that will need a long time to be solved.