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Abruzzo is one Europe’s greenest regions with 37 nature reserves and parks that cover 30% of this region of central Italy.

Recycling comes naturally to Abruzzo’s rural communities where the region’s primary income remains agriculture: bottles are kept to for next season’s harvest whether it is olive oil or passata or chillies and preserves.

This wild and untouched area of Italy has recently attracted the attention of the oil giants in their quest for oil incomes generate outside the members of OPEC. Both the Abruzzo coastline with its fish & bird reserves as well as its national parks and agricultural, fishing, tourism industries are all under threat.