Hazardous Waste in Gospić Pollutes Water, Soil and Poses a Health Risk
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Waste from Slovenia, Italy and Germany is said to have contaminated soil and groundwater.
The scandal involving hazardous waste from Slovenia, Italy and Germany, which was discovered in Croatia last year, is taking on new dimensions. Analyses have shown that around 37,000 tons of hazardous waste in Gospić is already contaminating the soil and groundwater, threatening the environment and human health. There are demands for immediate remediation, as well as calls for the resignation of those responsible.
The start of the remediation was announced for the fall of 2025, the public procurement was announced in February of this year, and not a gram of the 13 thousand tons of non-hazardous and hazardous waste has yet to be removed from Poznanovac in the municipality of Bedekovčina. Just like in Gospić, some of the waste has been buried in Poznanovac, suspected to have been illegally imported from Slovenia.
Hazardous materials were found in a landfill near Gospić, while the opposition announces the initiation of the impeachment of the Government and an extraordinary session of the Parliament.
After USKOK published the results of an environmental expert assessment in Gospić in the case of illegal waste disposal, which showed that the area was polluted, the President of the Republic, Zoran Milanović, spoke out about it. He said on Facebook that "illegal, indeed criminal, disposal of hazardous...
'Lika, but also Croatia, must receive an answer: why has no one been punished to date for the illegal disposal of hazardous waste and why have the competent state institutions silently allowed this?'
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