Romania starts again to be targeted by countries such as Italy as the likely destination for their waste. Authorities say the Italian region of Liguria take into account waste export to France or Romania after their current legal contract with a garbage pit in the peninsula expires, reports stiripesurse.ro.
The risk that Romania might again become the "garbage collector" of the European Union increases as the deadline approaches beyond which Bucharest cannot forbid it, experts warn.
The moment of accession into the EU in 2007 has caught Romania on the wrong foot, with dozens of landfills that could easily be described as ecological clock bombs.