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that's all i don't know or she always not to be there, but a lot of the things that you want to that's why it's a man. no, it should be the commission and they'll dare to say with their project is successful or not that we don't have the success of a project is evaluated. just decided assessed by members. nobody we managed to solve the counties long standing wasting. the problem is that nursing they live somewhere else and the accounts experience what it's like to live by a landfill. that's the situation. unfortunately, for me, somebody really doesn't want us to see this. i think no one in the right lines,

any waste management operator one take over the system as it is now to try to fix that. most of the materials to the source just dump it there. so the it took off for it to use and choose county romania over 12 years to bid this new waste management center and bring it online. it replaces the infamous path that it waste. i'm a giant in the good facility. i'm here to find out as millions of yours european tex, past money, but literally wasted here on is after a long delay. this new dispos inside could be pat audits happily as i've done spoiler, it's not i know straight away that something is off. when i see drone footage of the land to shot on the day of our visit and the 1st thing i spot is this tie uh

the the tie us just the 1st g secret that the people in charge apparently don't want us or anyone else to see the operate to ignore our requests for our permission to fit them inside the disposal aside. slightly suspicious considering adjust open the c o . 2 is not poker. and romania has a reputation for poor waste management. a few 100 meters from the land for a secular meant that has long been known as europe's biggest waste schedule. more than 1500 room i people of the somewhat driven by poverty to new fee and work us

ways pick us as us were evicted from the city the every day they experience life and the shadow of a poorly run garbage done. that means bad ad talks, the grounds and living without running water in the homes. right and the european union between 20142020 of it a was spent for a 118200000 new york on waste management in romania. and that chunk of it educated for closing sap spend the lenses like the one and cut out a huge loan. you invested around 14000000 euros and waste projects up to 2020 the money from the saw kind structure. the

funds supposed to create equal environmental standards and equal standards of living across the floor in his own. he wants to be identified by his 1st name has lived next to the ord waste dump. almost all office life company wouldn't control when it rains. the smell is unbearable because of the dreadful stench of the cabbage dumps or not all the point of think there's a lot of much hope you're not going to. the children often come to school dressy and will show some, and then they have to leave again to clean their shoes because the schools won't let them in and took a little some payments in classes of the problem. what is the 2nd problem is the diseases we accumulated over time team for really been

a lot of people have passed away since we moved here from to put you on for some more thoughts on each. so she might have the vast majority of them got cancer because the hair was so bad. it's full of microbes and all these things. same she mentally. so really a lot of our kids cool me cold football fan with the tissue in austin. when you think about all of this money, do you feel that it's actually reaching you as it has done anything for you? nonsense is also really my felt absolutely nothing because for us is nothing changed, the phone can pop up. so what do you mean? i'm talking about a standard of living alone even when you thought i didn't even with that that i, it's very difficult with little money and very low salaries image. i perfect. so i'm going to come, can we try to avoid the sight of this garbage dump? because in the past, it was a shame for us. internally, one thing to tell your friends or coworkers where you live or to invite someone

over for me and for them to see this place was a little bit shameful. a while back on the request, it'll be a little she knows flooring works as a garbage truck driver. he's seen different times and cut out it. come and stay. oscars figured, i'll probably, roy this, the on the site where i dump the garbage for at least 6 or 7 years. general thing shots or so shop down and bought the new role at the bottom where you can see the grass growing. there was the old number for that. i'm finding a dump that was set up before i was born cottage and i'm 50 years old. a like a roman colloquy options as young. so this isn't the ord pet rent what it looked like before. somewhere around here is where flooring this romania joined you in 2007. they were given the deadline until 2009 to close this done and the pressure from the you commission authorities only

start to to shut down the landfill in 2015. but the new waste management center wasn't ready instead and created waste went to a new temporary dump until 5 more years for the oil land for to be rehabilitated. and another free yes. until april of 2023. for the new facilities to be the except for the operational remembering use tile, let me tell you why it's a drug issue credit because use tie as a one of the items that i've been from going to land fits and the european union as a hazardous waste liquids, for them of the items and any uncreated waste. landfilling is the most tom for form of waste, dispos that he wants to limit the amount of municipal waste buried in the ground to 10 percent by 2045. at least officially some countries in

northern europe have all most midland filling history. why romania, scott bitch misses the target by a long shot 51 percent of romanian waste was land fitted in 2020. the country also has the most and eco dams on the continent. over $13000.00. according to the latest estimates, the european commission took romania to the european court of justice twice fulfilling to close land for the fluid counties capital. choosing a poker as an economically booming city in romania as transylvania region. the center looks incredibly keen and we even found this state of the smart waste bins to separate waste and stored underground.

the . let's have a quick look at the use woods for waste. the main goal is to reduce it by producing less waste by compositing, really using and recycling in romania as a recycling rate for municipal waste. the said, 14 percent compared to 49 percent and you countries on average so when the process of things going wrong and cues to find out, we went all the way back in the waste chain, from the land food to the garbage. been because to be recycled, waste has to 1st be separated and collected separately. we're in a residential area too. it's not pull code 1st impressions, people lining up to recycle plastic boxes. this is separate from generally the

waste collection. people get free best tickets in exchange for plastic boxes the and we see different bins for different types of trash of the you guys recycled your way. sometimes sometimes this was sometimes he doesn't make sense because the same car is taking the garbage. so it's not actually recycling is one called the phone to pick everything. and then it happens right in front of our eyes. the truck says today we are collecting paper, but they're also collecting everything. it's from differently labeled bins. it makes me wonder, is this just a one off some walk and it's not following the rules,

or is this done across the board system? magic key the early the next morning we need shunned or cutter say he's a waste expert. used to be in charge of waste management in another town in romania and now runs a recycling business. as an activist, you awesome tracks. the municipal waste includes the after a few minutes we start the 1st garbage truck chapel. can the book got this? if it does show a check here, we can see that unfortunately, the trash was empty from several containers. different categories, like when we came to the same vehicle, but he said he was this discourages people from collecting separately for tenants and the best quarter shots cost the collect is selected.

we're off to a different neighborhood where we follow and now that trucks the so what's happening now again, there's like this different types of ways, right? yes, yes. i think they are mixing all is being yes. unplugged shunned or text me? he does the detective work because it's hard to come by up to date, locally waste collection data. even though the operate is legally required to keep track. he says, remain yes, environmental protection agency. it takes 2 years to validate and publish the data . over the past decade, recycling rates and romania have consistently been a little more mens locked while the image for cycles are more expensive to

collect and mixed waste. and they show we're not mistake shop. and so there's no incentive to collect it separately because the waste fee system doesn't encourage you to not be in place to collect this the product. so you think that is the main problem of why it's not working? yes, it's one of the problems, hopefully monday. there are also the issues of awareness of the right infrastructure. we've seen is some containers are well labeled on time, but here they're not the actually want the money from the new was supposed to be spent on a sped out in a lot of details in the project description. 7820 collection bins. 3 ways transfer stations, excess roads, 21000 individual combusting units. 17 containers for hazardous municipal waste, $46.00 containers for by request a waste starting station, a waste treatment plan. atlanta, the,

we saw that at least part of this equipment was purchased and delivered. so what's going wrong i meet again with shunned or curtis for you and 3 of the environmental activists for years now. they've been keeping tabs on clues waste. for me it's, it's, it looks like a lot of the things that you wanted y implemented. know on paper, let's say, you know, you can see there are these bins, they bought them, they put them, that of the good thing is as it should be, nothing you cannot show one thing that is done to the book you. it's not the deposit is done badly. the sorting good is done badly. the collecting has done bad lead. busy the ways bins are done badly, the transport is done barely what, what,

which box can you show that is done by the book? we take another look at the drone footage of the new land for the activists. i worried that in recent weeks, the dump has been filling up much faster than a charge. and that it may just be a matter of time to choose his next big habits crisis. and it's worse than when we do some surveillance with a drone because we had some, some videos and we could look at some big optics, but we didn't see this close detailed. so it's really, it's a bit towards definitely thoughts. and then we saw it before and then this is not a moment or a mistake. this is a structure, as you can see from the area that these covered with non treated non sorted garbage . that this is general practice when it will start to go down hills,

then to what things will become fully enough formation. and then when we put the garbage, most of them, what do you realize? they don't treat those sort just dump it there it's, it's so obvious and before that the activists document their observations on social media. but they don't get much attention from the public or the media. mars. here you see by this group on facebook is the local media. we are lacking proper media here in our city. they all kind of gave up or actually doing proper media. and there, there is no interest in malcolm, but then maybe there are people page to kind of shut up. so what does it show? we're trying to re balance, but the only people who will tell us things the activists is really like to get both sides of the story. if there are a way, i guess there are 2 sides, but it's really hard to get to the other side of the story. and we contacted

everyone in charge of the ways them cures to try to get access to the treatment center and to confront them with what we saw suit the con, the operator that manage this waste collection and treatment. he had never onset. our cause all our email is romania as ministry of european investments. all right, so didn't reply to our questions. the supervising local waste management association sent us a written statement saying that when operating deficiencies found at the waste management center correction notices are drawn up and penalties applied. no one politically in charge wanted to talk to me in person. but finally, i am granted an interview at twos county town, so they are responsible for implementing the new project the account. so

president refused to meet us. so i get to talk to spokesman. i mean, you go, you can sit there. yes, a little sheet. so there's a little much else that we might need to solve the counties longstanding wise problem. homework is blocked out. we closed all non compliant public landfills and we put the sale on the integrated waste management center and to use the general updated because he thought it could you gentle the management team thinking that the district would look. so from that perspective, it's clearly a success. the one suggest we've also assigned the waste collection to the court. it's functional, all district would load and we've assigned the operation to the waste management center. almost always a close cycle to input the measurements. although she will just put this on the 1st one, she can work he's we observed that and precious the not being recycled and not collected separate includes. and this is one of the main boards of european west managements

that and that's so am i you as the cruise county, i'm not concerned about this, provide me with exist. so there are probably some isolated problems and from the collaborative. but if you would, clearly it's not a systematic issue, and i'm telling you that as a citizen for some of the got $11.00 thing that sudden is that a good proportion of the waste is collected entry did separate lakes and she did the, the got the city depot, select you, have you been at the new lancer and have you actually looked at the waste and the lancer, beautiful. now firstly, i was there was several stages of the project. you're not after it started operations. so not recently, origin. i'm interested as a, the and i school was calling to, to have a functioning waste management system. of course you the junk me as the county council, there's not a controlling or 40 but optic northwest to do. but we have taken on 2 projects, various contracts, all what the law of launches us to do one practice or traction lead y'all. nobody.

it's not new, but it's not our responsibility to enforce it on other private all public entities . so it's the vop is pop over the chat. actually i'm surprised that he repeated on camera that they call this a success that they say the waste management system is functioning properly. i wasn't expecting that. i'm getting the feeling i really need to find out what's going on inside the treatment center up on the activist eastbound circuit has promised to take us close, but he's want us that it's not accessible by a public road with the freight of me. it's fairly game over somebody you really doesn't want us to see this. i think

the only thing that's working on that was done deliberately. yes. so people kind of gross the short on the so fresh the, because uh, there were no, there was no vegetation on the bottom. the, the waste treatment center. it was officially opened, and a pro 2020 free eastbound come see a regularly a to check if that has been any progress. normally, the garbage trucks come all the way down and up on this hill, then they should go to that facility over there. and the there should be the belts

because they are both, then the whole thing should go to the sift. and whatever remains in the safe is this is more than what the real like, uh like uh, small objects and so on, which is which you are allowed to deposit. but again, you need to see if what these down is the same cost as the is least one. if you find bigger object, it's beds we can look inside the building. we can see that some garbage has indeed been treated. but it's just a fraction and treated waste is still being dumped in the lenses when your tires, in your opinion, commission is uh, shame on you for knowing and not doing anything. yeah. yeah, i'm sure they know it's time. i talked to someone at the european commission in brussels,

i have an appointment with stuff on the cash market. he's the commission spokes person for region of the policy, which includes the project includes county for them, its opponents invested. for now, the project has been implemented for almost 95 percent and we expect the program to be finalized by the end of december this year. so yes, there has been days, but we see that the, the, the rate of implementation is quite high when, how, how, how is that judge like one of the criteria to say it's 95 percent implemented. i'm asking because when we were there, we saw that waste is not being separated on a daily basis. that there are trucks that are suppose to collect just let's say paper or plastics. but we actually finish them collecting all of the waste. we also went to the lenses and we saw this untreated waste and the new land. so. so i,

i think the visa indicates of said whatever supposed to happen isn't really watching what i think it's also important to know that we commission, we agree with the number of states on indicators on the objectives. but these are objectives for the programs country. why so arranging, why, so it's, and these indicators, objectives then has to be translated by the member states, the actual indicators, objectives for the different projects. so i would say that the management, the full length of the so these projects really happens by the member state. if i see the waste is not being separated and it's not being recycled, why is this not part of the objective of the program? why is what specified in the project? things like a bias. some waste bins. you know it more like technical stuff. this equipment is not the way use them by deficient you know, to reach the targets or the objectives that it's for sure. but the use of the

equipment in itself is not the objective. the objective is that we have well working systems was well working waste treatment systems well working from recycling and disposal systems. those are the, the, like, this resource. i know why i mean it, wouldn't you agree that if it's not used correctly, then this project is not really a success. so if, if the equipment is i can open the stage, pronounce myself on this and this particular product, as i explained to project, are managed by the member states. the commission does not manage projects. we do not follow each separate project. we have under equation policy, the previous peers, 1500000 projects on more than 1500000 projects funded by equation policy. and these are old managed by the number of states i'm a business, i'm fine. i was thinking that you would at least say something about our project

and not just, you know, these like sort of very general responses and feel like, you know, i can understand that they have a lot of projects to manage and maybe then are passionate about each of the projects, but you know, it feels like we'll catch everybody we talked to was like, we're not in charge of these people. so in the end, it's like if, if this was the private money, they would count what happens to the money, you know, but it's everyone's private money. so it's, it's all, it takes money. beckett, pedagogy, each month. so coach has come up with a new plan. anytime i come here at the field, i see this happening that the, the garbage trucks are not coming up the just the dumping. i want to reinstall the scanner, which is the solar panels. the solar powered and can do most of the video to see how many trucks actually come up the supposed to be. if i hide the swell and nobody

finds it, then you want to because we have one week of footage of exactly how many use drops game, how many when the so the off. so let's see how, how i throw this things on each one and the other activists plan to file a complaint with all of the european and to fraud office, to demand an official investigation into waste management and clues. but he doesn't expect much as long as europe is happy with the d. s. and they are and they have been and they would be with romania, we have no problem in producing more nice looking video. the i as in found out who is to blame for this mess, but maybe that's exactly where the problem lies. in the european project business, every one is responsible for part of something, but no one assumes for the responsibility. and what seems to get lost along the way,

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