Illegal waste from Norway. We have important information straight from Świnoujście. Environmental inspectors stopped the transport of 2300 tons of illegal waste from Norway to Poland. It was supposed to contain cork and wood. Instead, wooden chips, contaminated with varnishes and paints, foil, upholstery sponge and scrap metal, arrived on the ship. The inspectors noticed the inaccuracies and returned the "package" to the country of the fjords. You had the whole situation on Tuesday. It is disturbing that the harmful waste also included metals, fragments of fibreboards, laminated boards and upholstery sponge. What do we know more about this?
Illegal waste from Norway flowed to Poland
Let's see how the experts look at the whole situation.
“It was a transport from a Norwegian company that declared that it was waste that could travel on the so-called green leaf, i.e. without the required permits. If such waste is not hazardous and does not pose any problems with recycling, then the wood can travel quite freely in Europe. " - the spokeswoman of the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection, Agnieszka Borowska, explained in an interview with Wirtualna Polska.
Where is the root of the problem?
Illegal waste from Norway. The error was made at the stage of loading the goods. For some reason, waste appeared in the hold and should have been classified as so-called amber list i obtain permits Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection in Poland and Norway.
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