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Poland won’t take UK garbage any more
Poland won't take UK garbage any more
Racing to meet an EU recycling target, the waste market in Poland is booming. But Warsaw is increasingly fed up with illegally imported foreign waste, much of it from the UK.
- Jo Harper
- Deutsche Welle
Poland has become a dumping ground for UK plastic waste and a so-called trash mafia has allegedly grown up to manage its illegal incineration.
Poland’s Deputy Minister of the Environment, Slawomir Mazurek, promised recently that the government would come down hard on illegal incineration of imported plastic waste.
Poland’s 10 energy-from-waste plants, he said, can handle domestic waste and imports from the…