Izvor: N1 televizija, 30.Maj.2018, 16:21 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
More hazardous waste found in illegal dump outside Belgrade
The Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Wednesday that investigators found tonnes of hazardous waste in the Obrenovac area.
The ministry press release said that an estimated 40 tonnes of hazardous waste has been found at the site.
Investigators from the ministry and security services have found a total of some 100 tonnes of hazardous waste in the village of Vukicevica outside Obrenovac this year, all of it buried in barrels on privately owned land. >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << The waste included cancerous oils and mercury which has spilled out into underground waters and polluted the food chain in the area. The local population has been told not to use well water.
“This is why we are dying young,” Environmental Protection Minister Goran Trivan said during a tour of the site of the illegal waste dump. “Our lives will be increasingly short and our quality of life worse and I repeat – this is why we are so sick and why we have a number of various illnesses and are dying young. Personally, for as long as I am in this position, I will not allow this to be tolerated, just as I have done in the past 10 months,” Trivan said.
Speaking on the N1 show Pressing in February 2018, Trivan said that illegal hazardous waste dumps are an ecological safety issue. He added that he could not exclude the possibility of the illegal dumps being set up by organized crime groups.
