by Kyle Molyneux | Tue 20 Oct 2020
Case’s Italian job
A Case 821G wheel loader recently starred in an Italian documentary series called ‘La Natura che parla’ (Nature Speaks), aired on the Rai2 TV channel, which addresses various environmental concerns, including river pollution.
The Case machine appeared in the eighth episode, where it was put to work cleaning a beach in Rovigliano (Torre Annunziata), which is the mouth of the Sarno river – the most polluted in Europe. Although located near Naples and Pompeii, as well as facing the islands of Capri and Ischia, the beach is unsuitable for swimming and littered with rubbish. During the episode, recorded during the last week of August, the mounds of bottles, containers, reeds and other general waste were collected by the volunteer association Le meraviglie del Golfo, with as much recycled as possible.
The 821G was fitted with a three-cubic metre skeleton bucket that was able to filter out the debris from the sand. All the debris collected was then put in a 6m long container, which was only half full once the operation was complete. As a result, the beach’s fine black volcanic sand is visible once again.
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