industrial nations no longer need and the lightest textile waste gets stranded here. all about the final stuff in a global fashion industry. fast fashion. watch now on youtube or ceilings, not to be there, but a lot of the things that you want to that's once a man. no, it should be the commission and they'll dare to say what their project is successful or not that we don't the success of a project is evaluating just decided assessed by members. nobody because we managed

to solve the counties long standing ways and program deals with that nursing they live somewhere else and they can't experience what it's like to live by a landfill. that's the situation. unfortunately, not afraid of me. somebody really doesn't want us to see this. i think no one in the ring. mine's anyways, management operator one take over the system as it is now to try to fix that. most of the materials take 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 as he goes to. so the t i'm here to find out as millions of yours european tax pants money, but literally wasted here on is after a long delay. this new dispos inside could be passed 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 support is this. ty, uh, the the tie us just the 1st to 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 dispos aside. slightly suspicious considering it just opened this here. tuition of 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 dump. that means that ad toxic grounds and living without running water in the homes. right. and then your opinion and union

between 20142020 of a will spend for a 118 point. 2000000 new york on waste management in romania, a large chunk of it n. okay, and for closing steps then the lenses like the one and cut that it into a loan. you invested around 14000000 euros and waste projects up to 2020 the money from the sole card structure. the funds are 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 moved next to the ord waste dump almost all office life.

i'm pretty much in control when it rains, the smell is unbearable because of the dreadful stench of the cabbage dumps. not all the important thing. there's a lot of much hope you're not coming to children often come to school, jesse and will show some of them. then they have to leave again to clean their shoes because the schools won't let them in and took a little something. it's in classes. the other problem, what is the 2nd problem is the diseases we accumulate over time team for really been a lot of people have passed away since we moved here from to put you on 1st of all, 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 and she mentally so being a lot particularly me cold football fan with the kissing 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 and thoughtful. i mean, i felt absolutely nothing, i think because for us is nothing changed or something but up. so what do you mean? i'm talking about our standard of living and not even we get that. i didn't even

with that that i, it's very difficult with little money and very low salaries image effect . 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 centrally 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. you seen different times and cut that it come and stay as close figured off by the way this the on the site where i dumped the garbage for at least 6 or 7 years. telephone thing shots are so shop to the fact that there's always at the bottom where you can see the grass growing. there was the old dom ruffles that i'm finding a dump that was set up before i was born. got

a site and i'm 50 years old. like a roman called coolly options as young so that's, that's the ord pet rent. but it looked like before somewhere around here is where flooring this romania joined you in 2007. they were given the deadline until 2009 to closeness. done on the impression 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 ord, langford to be rehabilitated and another free yes until april of 2023. for the new facility 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 the benefits and the european union as a hazardous waste liquids for them of the items and any uncreated waste. land funding 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 sky, which 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 dumps on the continent of us. 13000. according to the latest estimates, the european commission took romania to the european court of justice twice

fulfilling to close land for the fewest counties cafeteria, choosing a poca as an economically booming city and romania as transylvania region. the sent out looks incredibly keen, and we even found this state of the odd 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 set 14 percent compared to 49 percent and you countries on average so when the process of

things going wrong, huge 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 who is not poco 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. and we see different bins for different types of trash of the you guys recycle your way sometimes sometimes. yeah. so sometimes he doesn't make sense because the same car is taking the garbage. so it's not actually

recycling. there's 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? i was not following the roots or is this done across the board? systematic key. the early the next morning we need shunned or cutter. say he's a waste expert. he used to be in charge of waste management in another town and romania and now run. so recycling business. as an activist, you awesome tracks. the municipal waste includes the after a few minutes,

we start the 1st garbage truck chapel in the book got this. if it does show you chuck here, we can see that unfortunately, the trash has emptied from several containers. different categories i've always taken to the same vehicle and go to 30 to this discourages people from collecting separately for tenants in the best quote on shots cost. a quick business say next week we're off to a different neighborhood where we funnel and now that trucks the so what's happened now again, it's like this different types of ways, right? yes, yes. i think they are mixing or, or they'll be yes. unfortunately, shawn to attach media,

does this detective work because it's hard to come by up to date, locally waste collection data. even though the operate does legally required to keep track, uses romania as environmental protection agency. it takes 2 years to validate and publish the data. over the past decade, recycling rates and romania have consistently been low. in woman's locked while, the amount of money 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 its not being played so connected to the product. so you think that is the main problem of why it's not working? yes, it's one of the problems. there are also the issues of awareness and of the right infrastructure. we've seen in some containers are well labeled on time, but here they're not 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 ro, it's 21000 individual combusting units. 17 containers for hazardous municipal waste, $46.00 containers for by request a waste salting station, a waste treatment plan. and then to the we saw that at least part of this equipment was purchased and delivered. so what's going wrong and meet again was 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 want to that's why i'm some interest on

paper. let's say, you know, you can see there are these bins. they bought them, they put them there. of the good thing is as it should be, nothing you cannot show one thing that is done to the book. it's not the deposit is done badly. the sort thing good is done badly. the collecting has done bad lead. busy of the ways bins are done badly, the transport is done barely. but what, which box can you show that it's 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 prices. and it's worse then when we do some surveillance with a drone, because we had some,

some videos. and then we could look at some big objects, 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 momentary 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 hill, then to what things will become for the email formation. and then when we put the garbage most of them, what do we have? they don't treat those sort, just dump it there. it's, it's so obvious and before that was 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 milk on, but the as may be there are people page to kind of shut up. so what we're trying to re balance, but the only people who will tell us things the activists is really right to get both sides of the story if there are. but 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 waste and clues to try to get access to the treatment center and to confront them with what we saw suit dot com, the operator that manage this waste collection and treatment. he had never onset our cards or our email 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 on the account. so president refused to meet us. so i get to talk to spokesman in yoga. then you can sit there. yes, i'm blue sheets, so there's a little much else that we might need to solve. the counties longstanding waste problem when keith talked uh we closed old non compliant public landfills and we put the sale on the integrated waste management center and to use the general of the nipples. you thought it could, you turn to the management team thinking that the district would look. so from that

perspective, it's clearly a success the wants to just. we've also assigned the waste collection to the court . it's functional, audition would load and we've assigned the operation to the waste management center almost. so it's a close sign culture with the measurements. although she will just put this one appears to in chico, one keys we observed that and precious the not being recycled and not collected separately and includes. and this is one of the main boards of european waste management stand. that's so am i you as the 2 is county not concerned about this? probably pigs. you still, there are probably some isolated problems and from the thought of 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 thing that sudden is that a good proportion of the waste is collected and treated separately. if she did the, the got the city nico select you. have you been at the new lancer and have you actually looked at the waste and the lancer, the better?

so now on firstly, i was there was several stages of the project. you're not after it started operations. so not recently, origin interested as a, the schools county to have a functioning waste management system. of course you the junk mail is the county council. there's not a controlling or 40 optic northwest to do, but we have taken on through projects, various contracts, all what the law of launches us to do one practice of traction, lead y'all. nobody got that yet, but it's not our responsibility to enforce it on other private all public entities . so it's we've opted football breach. i actually am 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 as close. but he's want us that it's not accessible by a public road with the freight of me. and it's fairly game over somebody really doesn't want us to see this. i think i, i don't think that's working. that was done deliberately. yes. so people can across the shore,

and it's 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, then up on this is then they should go to that facility over there. and the, there should be the belts go, they are about then the whole thing should go to the sift and whatever remains in the safe. is this the small and 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 this one. if you find a bigger object, its beds we can look inside the building. we can

see that simon garbage has indeed been treated, but it's just a fraction. and treated waste is still being dumped in the land for when utah's, in your opinion, commission the shame on you for knowing and not doing anything. yeah, i'm sure they know of the, it's time i talk 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 of the limits of holding some festival. 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 supposed to collect just let's say paper or plastics. but we actually fin them collecting all of the waste. and we also went to the landfill and we saw this untreated waste and the new land. so. so i, i think that visa indicates of said whatever it's 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, weiss or region 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 width 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 ways bins, you know it more like technical stuff. if equipment is not way use then by deficient you know, to reach the target's already objective. that is for sure. but the use of the equipment in itself is not the objective. the objective is that we have well working systems with well working waste treatment systems. well, working from recycling and dispos, so systems, those are the, the object, this refilled kind of why i mean and what do you agree that if it's not used correctly, then this project is not really a success? so if, if up equipment is i can open the stage, pronounced myself on this, this particular product. as i explained to you,

projects 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 projects 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 seems 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 to the field, i see this happening that the, the garbage trucks are not coming up the just the dump is, 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 to this facility. if i hide this well and nobody finds it, then you one week i have you have one week, a footage of exactly how many trucks came, how many, when a so either way off. so let's see how, how i thought of these things on each one and the other activists plan to file a complaint with all of the european anti fraud office to demand an official investigation into waste management includes, but he doesn't expect much as long as europe is happy with the the s and they are

and they have been and they would be romania, we'll have no problem in producing more nicely compete in the i as in found out who is to blame for dismiss. 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 is the big picture. the or the

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