Law for old cars casts shadows of scandal

The essence of this law is to allow the import of waste materials for recycling them. A few days later, the Parliament passed a normative act for closing until October 7th the car graveyard businesses located by national roads.

The government argued that the car graveyards pollute the environment. The opposition objected again, saying that there is no reason to use urgency for this act.

If the owners will not remove their materials from the graveyards situated by the national roads, the government will use the army to seize the materials. But where will these scrap materials go, who will buy and sell them?

For this there is no official information yet, since the official deadline has not expired. After an investigation, Top Channel discovered that parallel with the planning of the law for importing waste materials and the normative act for seizing old cars, the government has continued to build the implants where these waste materials will be processed.

A dozens of meters away from the Xhafezotaj overpass, on the right of the Tirana-Durres road, recently was built an implant where has started the processing of old cars. The guards of this object confirmed that the implant was built by the Scholz Company.

A research at the National Center of Business Registration resulted that the Scholz Company was registered on 25 April 2008, located in Shkoder and property of Branisllav Pejovich and Rado Brajovich.

NCBR also shows that the activity of this company is “Collecting, processing, recycling, transiting, transporting and exporting solid and voluminous materials made of metal”.

The license for this activity was taken by the German Company Scholz AG, centered in Essigen, Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany, while the Albanian branch is called Scholz LTD Albania.

According to the calculations, Albania has 100.000 tons of waste materials from the old cars. The government passed a normative act for seizing them, if they will not move until October 7th. An implant like Scholz will have a processing power of 10.000 tons per month, which means that for 100.000 tons, this company will have raw material only for 10 months.

But where will these companies find the legal raw materials for their activity? The answer might be on the article 49 of the law that passed a few days ago, saying:

“It is allowed to import in the country safe urban wastes that will be used as raw materials for the processing industry in Albania, when the domestic raw material is now sufficient”.

Scholz AG, to which the Scholz LTD Albania is subsidiary, is partner of the C.I.O.S GROUP that collects scrap metals and urban waste materials. This company has its centers in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Albania.

The locals say that another plant is being built some meters away from the Scholz Plant, which will melt car batteries, lead and colored metals that will come out of the processing of old cars, and which will be melted into zinc and lead molds, an extremely poisonous technological process.

The processing power of the implant will be three times bigger than all the new and old batteries in our country. The government’s movement for importing and seizing old cars has been in parallel with the construction of waste processing businesses, whose work depends from this law.

There is no information if the cars that will be seized will end up at this plant or if among the imported waste materials there will be old cars from other countries. What the official documents show is that the waste recycling businesses, especially for their import and export, have been registered in Albania before the law was passed.

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