Romanian environment minister asks for state of alert in Bucharest after illegal waste fires

The useful part

The alert will allow authorities to set up filters and 24/7 monitoring, enact faster intervention measures, and coordinate their response, the interim environment minister announced, according to News.ro. Diana Buzoianu said that Sinteşti has four access areas and would therefore be easily monitored. “We are asking for control over the carriers and over the route of the waste, together with the police and the Environmental Guard.

How it works

• We will ask at the meeting, which we hope will be convened by the two prefectures, for permanent monitoring, I repeat, 24/7, at the four access points in the SinteЕџti area.
• We will ask for the effective involvement of the city halls and the local police,” Buzoianu said.
• The Ministry also held meetings with mayors in the area, and some said that they could not allocate even a single person for the monitoring of fires, according to the minister.
• SinteЕџti is a “constant hotspot” of pollution that exposes millions of Bucharest residents to toxic particles every day, Buzoianu stated.
• According to the official, burned waste can have up to 5 to 40 times more PM10 emissions than wood burning.

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