Generally speaking, steel production is a “dirty” industry. Pollution of air, soil, water and resulting negative
health impacts on the local population and workers are not only a problem at the ILVA site, but also in other
steel production sites. However, due to the technologies employed at the ILVA plant, the pollution caused by the
ILVA plant is more significant than that caused by other steel plants; it has been argued that if the plant used
the best available technologies, the negative environmental and health impacts could be significantly reduced