site.btaItalian Waste Found at Bulgarian Port Is Not Hazardous or Toxic - Prosecutors

January 20 (BTA) - Italian waste which was found to sit
 unlawfully at the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Bourgas, is not
hazardous or toxic, the prosecution service said at a special
news briefing Monday. The prosecution opened a probe after 20
containers with waste from Italy was found at Bourgas Port and
it turned out it had been sitting there since the beginning of
September 2019.

The leader of the Bourgas District Prosecution Office, Georgi
Chinev, said that the sender of the waste, the Italian company
Dentice Pantaleone, and the receiver, Bratsion OOD, are the same
 who sent and received waste at the Bourgas and Varna ports.

Chinev said, however, that what was found in the countainers did
 not match the documents of the waste shipment. The containers
contained textiles, paper and metal while the documents were for
 plastics and rubber.

The waste was meant to be taken to a plant in Pleven.

The containers with the waste were supposed to be at the port
for 90 days from September 5.

The prosecution service is to do more tests on the waste to
stablish the exact content. They said "they are ready to seek
assistance from international police services to investigate the
 waste shipment".  MORE/
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