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Why not just formalise the whole system and ship the waste to waste-to-energy plants?

• burntoutfire 5y ago
  This waste is very toxic and very expensive to dispose of properly. Hence, Polish gangs make a ton of money by charging western industrial clients for properly disposing of their toxic waste, and then just dumping this waste wherever in Poland. There were probably hundreds of cases of discovered illegal toxic waste dumps across Poland in the past years (and who knows how many were not discovered yet). Just in one recent case, the city of Sosnowiec will have to pay around 20 million euros (a non-negligible part of the city budget) to dispose of waste left in one lot by some gang. Fortunately, Polish authorities are slowly catching up to this and are creating special police units dedicated to fight this kind of crime.