site.bta54 Containers With Italian Waste Will Be Re-exported By Sea

February 15 (BTA) Loading started on Saturday evening of 54 containers with
Italian waste which will be re-exported by sea, Environment and
Water Minister Emil Dimitrov said in Varna, on the Black Sea.
The containers are part of a total of 127 containers of waste
from Italy found at the Port of Varna-West which have been
subject to pre-trial proceedings since mid-January. The
containers had arrived in early October 2019, and waste they
carried was visibly different from what was declared in the
import documents. The shipment was left at the port for 90-day
temporary storage. Media reports about suspicious waste
deliveries from Italy have been snowballing in recent weeks.
They were triggered by the interception by Italian Carabinieri
on December 11, 2019 of an 815-tonne undocumented waste shipment
 near Milan and presumably destined for unlawful destruction or
landfilling in Bulgaria. The lack of information in some cases
and the odd circumstances about the way waste is stored, paired
with endemic air pollution, have given rise of widespread
suspicions that waste, possibly hazardous, is being incinerated
in Bulgaria in violation of the rules
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