Experts oppose import of waste materials

23/09/2011 21:10

The environmental experts, although they haven’t opposed the principle
of waste management, have clearly declared that this law is inapplicable
on terrain.

What makes this law more dangerous for the country is the import of foreign waste materials and the businesses that will manage it.

Environmental experts think that Customs in Albania do not have the necessary means and that the current waste management in the country has not started yet.

“When I say that we are not ready to import one meter cube of waste materials, not garbage, because the entire world suffers from the garbage problem, I relate it to the fact that the Albanian Customs cannot tell which ones are the right equipments. Today is time of internal combustion technologies. When you have secured this technology, then you can import waste materials”, declared the environmentalist Sazan Guri.

“It is a luxury to have such equipments, when we haven’t resolved other issues yet. By knowing the quantity of waste materials that is produced in Albania, it raises another question. Where will this big quantity of waste materials be placed? This project cannot be realized”, says the specialist Zamir Dedej.

The Deputy Minister of Environment, Taulant Bino, emphasized one day after this law was passed in the Albanian Parliament, that it specifies that the import of waste materials, which has started since 2003, will be made in full accordance with the Green List.

Bino says that Albania has all means for exerting full and detailed control on all Customs checkpoints.

“Until today, there have been three requests for import, and no one complained for the import of iron and plastics. But the import of waste materials, for depositing and eliminating them in the Albanian territory should be stopped”, Bino declared.

While the MPs of the area referred to studies that show a gray scenario for Albania, the Deputy Minister of Environment denied all pretenses.

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