{"id":115705,"date":"2023-07-27T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/poland-files-complaint-against-germany-over-illegal-waste-dumping\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T04:40:19","slug":"poland-files-complaint-against-germany-over-illegal-waste-dumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/poland-files-complaint-against-germany-over-illegal-waste-dumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland files complaint against Germany over illegal waste dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115705\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nA complaint has been filed to the European Commission against Germany for allegedly dumping illegal waste in Poland. Poland\u2019s Climate Minister Anna Moskwa said on Wednesday said the waste is being brought illegally and the complaint is a step toward taking Germany to the European Court of Justice, according to the Associated Press, Close to 35 tons of waste has been illegally moved to Poland by German companies and stored at seven sites and has not been removed despite several formal requests, she said, without specifying the sites\u2019 locations or when the waste was stored;<\/p>\n<p>Warsaw had appealed \u201cnumerous times\u201d to German federal and regional authorities without getting a response, Moskwa told reporters, adding that if the complaint to Brussels did not bear fruit, Poland would take Germany to the EU Court of Justice. ABC News is reporting that the German Environmental Ministry said it didn\u2019t have the complaint and couldn\u2019t comment substantially on it. Spokesperson Christopher Stolzenberg said that, in general terms, illegal waste exports are something that the German government views with concern and wants to sharpen EU rules on.<\/p>\n<p>Stolzenberg explained that in Germany, state governments rather than the federal government are responsible for implementing the law \u2013 investigating, tracing, and ordering the return of illegal exports. Foreign waste stored in Poland has been an issue for years. Polish companies sign contracts with foreign firms to neutralize the waste, but in some cases just dump it at unauthorized sites, eventually burning it to make room for more.<\/p>\n<p>The toxic fires have drawn public concern over the problem. Some of the 35 tons of waste in the complaint on Wednesday is also allegedly toxic. In 2021, Deutsche Welle reported that Poland has had a growing problem with the illegal dumping of waste from Germany. At that time, Poland\u2019s Environmental Ministry announced authorities had detected 30 locations where waste \u2014 largely soil mixed with rocks and construction materials \u2014 was illegally shipped from a German company located in Beeskow near the Polish border. \u201cThe issue of waste imports is minor. We have much bigger problems with our own waste, we cannot deal with our 13 million tons a year. Half a million [tons] from outside Poland is not an issue here,\u201d said Piotr Barczak, a board member of the NGO Zero Waste Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that German companies can avoid the stricter, more costly national waste management systems in their country, and split their disposal costs in half by exporting to Poland. On the receiving end, companies are happy to get paid to take care of the trash and even say they will recycle it when all they have is a plot of land and an excavator. Too often are there cases where a recycling permit is issued without verification of the necessary facilities, according to Earth.org.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/poland-files-complaint-against-germany-over-illegal-waste-dumping\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/poland-files-complaint-against-germany-over-illegal-waste-dumping\/\">Poland files complaint against Germany over illegal waste dumping<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10841,555,10842,10843,1038,10844,1002,445],"class_list":["post-115705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-complaint","tag-csr-news-en","tag-dymping","tag-file","tag-germany","tag-illegas","tag-poland","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}