Archaeologists have determined rubbish mounds outside the city walls at Pompeii were “recycling sites” where trash was sorted, reformed and resold, revealing the ancient Pompeiians were eco-conscious too.
Pompeii is the vast archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples, that was at one time an elegant city of luxury villas, ostentatious public buildings, highly-populated open squares lined with bustling shops, taverns, bath houses and brothels, until the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried the city beneath meters of ash and pumice.
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