Solve the counties longstanding, ways to program the diesel dates, nor think they live somewhere else and they cant experience what its like to live by a landfill. Thats the situation. Unfortunately, not afraid of me. Somebody really doesnt want us to see this. I think no one in the ring mine anyways, management operator one take over the system as it is now to try to fix the most of the materials to, to the source just dump it there. This is it took of sorry to use and clues, county romania over 12 years to bid this new Waste Management center and bring it online. It replaces the infamous path that it waste. Im a giant, isnt he good facility . Im here to find out if 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 ive done spoiler, its 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, ty, uh, the the tie as just the 1st g secret that the people in charge apparently dont 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 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 europes biggest waste schedule. More than 1500 room i people of the somewhat driven by poverty to new fi and work us ways pick us as us. What evicted from the city the every day they experience life and the shadow of a poorly run garbage dump. That means that ad talks the grounds and living without Running Water in the homes. Right and the European Union between 201420. 20 of it a well spent free 118. 00 point. 2000000 new york on Waste Management in romania, a large chunk of it. Educated for closing sap spend 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 so kind structure the funds supposed to create equal Environmental Standards and equal standards of living across the floor in who only wants to be identified by his 1st name has moved next to the ord waste dump almost all office life im pretty much in control when it rains, the smell is unbearable because of the dreadful stench of the garbage dumps or not all the point of think theres a lot of much hope youre not going to children often come to school dressy and will show some and then they have to leave again to clean their shoes because the schools wont let them in and took a little something. Its in classes. The other 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 the local channels and well thoughts on each. So she might have the vast majority of them got cancer because the hair was so bad. Its full of microbes and all these things. Same she mentally. So we knew a lot of our kids cool me cold football fan with the kissing austin. When you think about all of this money, do you feel that its actually reaching you as it has done anything for you . Nonsense is also really my felt absolutely nothing because for us is nothing changed or something but up. So what do you mean . Im talking about a standard of living alone even when you thought i didnt even with that that i, its very difficult with little money and very low salaries image effect. So im going to try 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 co work is where you live or to invite someone over for them to see this place was a little bit shameful for a while back on the request. I dont think it will. She knows florian works as a garbage truck driver. Hes seen different times at pet, thatd come and stay us. Those figured ill find the way this the on the site where i dump the garbage for at least 6 or 7 years. General thing shots are for shop to us and thought that he was always at the bottom where you can see the grass growing. There was the old number for that. Im finding a dump that was set up before i was born. Gotta assign the, im 50 years old. Like a roman colloquy options as young. So this is the ord pet rent. What does it look 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 wasnt ready. Instead and created waste went to a new temporary dump it til 5 more years for the oil land for to be rehabilitated and another free. Yes. Until april the 20, 23. For the new facilities to be the except for the operational. Remembering use tile, let me tell you why. Its a drug issue credit because use tires, a one of the items that ive 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, y 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 dams on the continent of 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 fewest counties cafeteria, choosing a poca as an economically booming city and 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. Lets 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 choose to find out, we went all the way back in the ways chain from the land food to the garbage been because to be recycled waste has to 1st be separated and collected separately. When a residential area whos not pull come 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 were site goes away. Sometimes sometimes this was sometimes she doesnt make sense because the same car is taking the garbage. So if it is not actually recycling, theres 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 theyre also collecting everything. Its from differently labeled bins. It makes me wonder, is this just a one off some workout . Its not following the rules, or is this done across the board . Systematic key. The early the next morning we meet shunned or cutters, for hes 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. Can the book out this if it does show you chuck here we can see that unfortunately the trash has emptied from several containers. Different categories ive always taken to the same vehicle body. The funny thing is, discourages people from collecting separately tennyson, the best quote on trucks across the collect visit fedex. Were off to a different neighborhood where we follow and now that trucks the so whats have now again, theres like different types of ways, right . Yes, yes. I think they are mixing all is being yes. Unplugged. Shun to attach media, does this detective work because its hard to come by up to date, locally Waste Collection data. Even though the operate does legally required to keep track use s 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 moment blocks, while the amount of money for cycles are more expensive to collect and mixed waste. They show were not mistake shop. And so theres no incentive to collect it separately because the waste fee system doesnt encourage it to not be in place. So collect this about. So you think that is the main problem. Why its not working . Yes, its one of the problems, hopefully monday. There are also the issues of awareness of the right infrastructure. Weve seen as some containers are well labeled on time, but here theyre not actually what 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, its 21000 individual combusting units. 17 containers for hazardous municipal waste, 46 containers for by request a wave sorting station, a waste treatment plan, atlanta, the, we saw that at least part of this equipment was purchased and delivered. So whats going wrong i meet again with shun door code is free and free as an environmental activists for years now theyve been keeping tabs on clues as waste for me its, its, it looks like a lot of the things that you wanted y implemented know on paper, lets 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. Its not the deposit is done badly. The sorting good is done badly, the collecting is done badly the, the ways bins are done badly. The transport is done fairly. But what, which box can you show that its 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 its worse then when we do some surveillance with a drone because we had some, some videos. And then we could look at some big optics, but we didnt see this close detailed. So its really, its 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 was start to go down hill, then to what things will become fully being operation. And then when we just have to put the garbage most of them with the area, they dont treat those sort. Just dump it there its, its so obvious. And before that was the activists document their observations on social media, but they dont 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 and no competence may be there are people page to kind of shut up. So what does it show you . Were trying to re balance. But the only people who will tell us things the activists is really have to get both sides of the story if there are. But i guess there are 2 sides, but its really hard to get to the other side of the story. And we contacted everyone in charge of the ways then choose 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 cards or our email romania as ministry of european investments. All right, so didnt 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 in yoga and said that yes of the sheets. So theres also much else to remind you to solve the counties longstanding. Waste 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 of the nipples. He thought it could, you gentle the Management Team think about the show a lot. So from that perspective its clearly a success the wants to just. Weve also assigned the Waste Collection to the court. Its functional how the district would load and we have assigned the operation to the Waste Management center almost. So its a close cycle to input the measurements, although she will just put this on the 1st one she can work hes 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 west managements that and thats 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 club report, if you would clearly its not a systematic issue. And im 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. 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 west and the lancer, beautiful. Now, unfortunately, i was there at several stages of the project. Youre not after it started operations. So not recently, origin. As interested as the, as close county to have a functioning Waste Management system. Of course, you know, the junk mail is the county council. Theres not a controlling or 40 but optic noise. We have to do what we have taken on through projects, various contracts, all. What the law of launches us to do one practice of traction, lead yall. Nobody of the new year, but its not our responsibility to enforce it on other private and all public entities. So its, weve opted football beach. I actually im surprised that he repeated on camera that they call this a success that they say the Waste Management system is functioning properly. I wasnt expecting that im getting the feeling i really need to find out whats going on inside the Treatment Center up on the activist eastbound circuit has promised to take us close, but hes want us that its not accessible by a public road with the freight of me and its fairly game over somebody really doesnt want us to see this. I think the only thing thats working on that was the deliberately yes. So people kind of trust this order and its so fresh the, because uh, there were no, there was no vegetation on the bottom. The, the waste Treatment Center. It was officially opened in a pro 2020 free eastbound. Come see a regular i need to check if that has been any progress. Normally the garbage trucks come all the way down and up on this is 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 this one. If you find bigger object, its beds we can look inside the building. We can see that some garbage has indeed been treated, but its 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, im sure they know its time. I talked to someone at the European Commission in brussels. I have an appointment with stefan the cash market. Hes the commission Spokes Person for regional policy, which includes the project includes county of a few minutes 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 just like one of the criteria to say its 95 percent implemented. Im 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 lets say pay for all plastics. But we actually finn 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 supposed to happen isnt really watching what i think its also important to know that we commission, we agree with the Member States on indicators on the objectives. But these are objectives for the programs, country, weiss or region why so its 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 numbers that f i, c, the waste is not being separated and its 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. This equipment is not the way you use them by deficient. You know, to reach the targets or the objectives that its 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 useful systems. Those are the, the project, this refund, or why i mean, and what do you agree that if its not used correctly, then this project is not really a success. So if, if, because it says i can open the stage, pronounce myself on this, this particular product. As i explained to you project or 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 all managed by the Member States. Im a business, im 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 in fields like, you know, i can understand that they have a lot of projects to manage and maybe theyre not passionate about each of the projects, but you know, it feels like comcast, everybody we talked to was like me, were not in charge of these people. So in the end, its like if, if this was the private money, they would count what happens to the money, you know, but its everyones private money. So its, its 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. They want to install this camera, 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 of footage of exactly how many use drops game, how many when the so i go to my off. So lets see how, how i throw this 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 doesnt expect much as long as europe is happy with the d. 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