Containers with hazardous waste, in South Constanța-Agigea Port
Prosecutor Teodor Niţă: If measures are not taken very quickly, Romania will become a landfill.
Articol de Sorin Cealera, Constanța, 25 Februarie 2020, 15:36
Romanian authorities are checking the situation of the 16 containers with unusable waste, discovered a few days ago in South Constanța-Agigea Port (Black Sea). Case prosecutor Teodor Niţă says that a large amount of this waste would have illegally arrived in Romania. This, though, is not a single case. Another approximately 50 waste containers have entered Romania, using the same network and route.
RRA Correspondent Sorin Cealera: Border police, on 20 February, discovered 16 containers loaded with unusable waste, unloaded from a ship under the Dutch flag in the port of South-Constanța Agigea, which arrived from the United Kingdom. Containers belonged to a company from Bucharest and were declared to the customs authority as second-hand household products. Teodor Niță, prosecutor within the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Constanța Court of Appeal, says that the waste was chemically treated with toxic substances.
Prosecutor Teodor Niţă: (..) If measures are not taken very quickly, Romania will become a landfill.
RRA Reporter: In Romania, the prices for waste storage are 10 times lower than in most European Union states, and the legislation is still permissive. About 50 suspicious containers have arrived from the UK prior to Brexit.
Source:RRA.Translated by Miruna Matei
