Investigating trash mismanagement: Are EU funds wasted in Romania? | DW Documentary

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Romania's struggle with bad waste management and illegal dumps has been a long-standing issue. Cluj County, once home to the notorious illegal garbage dump, Pata Rât, became a focal point of the waste crisis.
With investments of hundreds of millions of Euros, the European Union sought to tackle the issue by mandating the closure of harmful landfills and the introduction of European waste standards. It took authorities 12 years to close and rehabilitate the old landfill in Pata Rât and to open a new waste management center. But how much has really changed?
DW reporter Gönna Ketels delves deep into the details of EU-funded projects, as she confronts the grim realities of waste management in Romania and an intricate web of responsibilities.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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@MrBacescu
@MrBacescu Жыл бұрын
as a romanian i’m please to see that you have interest in what is going on in our country and i will like to ask you to keep doing this, we need to pressure our government to do something about this, the corruption will literally kill us and we feel like we can do nothing about it. EU should punish this corruption! Thank you for your help and keep in mind that we are more than willing to speak with you about this kind of problems!
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@Siranoxz
@Siranoxz Жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, your country needs better leadership then.. This sort of nonsense has no place in the EU.
@mediocresetup
@mediocresetup Жыл бұрын
@@Siranoxz There is no better leadership when almost all the parties currently in the parliament are collaborating and fostering corruption. They almost dismantled the organization that is supposed to fight corruption DNA. They also implemented laws that led to closing of huge corruption cases which were basically scrapped, the perpetrators, huge public faces are left with the money and no punishment or very little. It's endemic in the state. if someone new comes he won't be able to do anything all the media is in the pocket of the power and this is done by state payments to the networks for various "public service announcements" and things like that so any new party or anyone that opposes the system is obliterated politically.
@tommyright
@tommyright Жыл бұрын
Adevarat ai zis ! ca la noi la nimeni ... coruptie!
@yonathan1230
@yonathan1230 Жыл бұрын
@@Siranoxz if you think the other EU countries are much better do some research, germany, france etc really dont handle it responsibly either
@BrainWavesVillain
@BrainWavesVillain Жыл бұрын
To fine Romania is a wrong approach, the exact politicians and third-party recycling companies need to be brought to court.
@ovidiucojocaru38
@ovidiucojocaru38 11 ай бұрын
What third partys thw politicians take all the money and thats it
@Jesus.Christ106
@Jesus.Christ106 11 ай бұрын
there is no other approach, you can not just punish individuals from outside, the country and its citizens will have to sort that out by re-electing others(and this will only happen if the country is fined for it)
@synque7296
@synque7296 11 ай бұрын
​@@Jesus.Christ106it wont happen even then. The good ones dont ever make it to elections
@tr909love
@tr909love 11 ай бұрын
Finining romania 🤣, doesn't matter if capul de porc steals most of the money. The normal citizen will pay the fine.
@tr909love
@tr909love 11 ай бұрын
@@Jesus.Christ106 All romanian politicians are corrupt, they have get rich quick mindset. They say something and do something else to fill up their pockets. Most of the people who have firms steals EU funds and then buy expensive cars and many houses + alot of holiday trips outside Romania. A family of these corrupt people all have minimum 50k euro cars each + 500k euro mansion. In romania you must work 1000 years for those money
@SeniorAdrian
@SeniorAdrian Жыл бұрын
I was born in Cluj and i see this fake facade every day. Its depressing. Thank you for bringing awareness to this huge problem that is being ignored by authorities. You are doing good work.
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@andreiciu97
@andreiciu97 Жыл бұрын
i subscribe to my co-villager' opinion, it was a problem before but now they are just trying to shadow it as much as they can
@alinciocan5239
@alinciocan5239 Жыл бұрын
I am from Romania and I am really happy that they exposed this part. I live in a big city and we receive reports of how much we recycled per building. And we receive discounts for plastic & paper versus general waste. So i thought it was the same in other parts of the country
@alexbrinzaru4412
@alexbrinzaru4412 Жыл бұрын
Salut, din ce oraș ești? Pentru ca în Ploiești nu s a schimbat nimic.
@alinciocan5239
@alinciocan5239 Жыл бұрын
@@alexbrinzaru4412 iasi
@groovytau
@groovytau Жыл бұрын
I am happy as well they exposed it, also the guys from Recorder exposed this nearby Bucharest near sector 4.
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@bigzed7908
@bigzed7908 Жыл бұрын
@@Joe-sg9ll It's a scam in Romania, that's for sure.
@cristiangaban960
@cristiangaban960 Жыл бұрын
I from Cluj Napoca and have been telling the same thing to friends and family for years. No matter how much we try to separate waste, when the garbage truck comes , all gets in the same place. So this recycling thing is just a surface illusion, it doesn't get taken care of.
@zenddoor
@zenddoor Жыл бұрын
There are so many people that want to do the right thing in Cluj / Florești. What I don't understand is that nobody seems to speak up about it, no protests, nothing (as far as I know). I'm glad that in this video there are actual activists but man, it's time for the people to stand up.
@geoms6263
@geoms6263 Жыл бұрын
shame on you, you don't wash your dirty laundry in public
@kairossa8965
@kairossa8965 Жыл бұрын
Your country is corrupt and full of bad people whom you chose as a leader!
@neothaka
@neothaka Жыл бұрын
In Taiwan, the municipal garbage collection will collect separately. However, I work in a big office tower. The trash management company that handles collection at the building make sure to provide all kinds of separated bins. Yet, every time I see them actually collect it, they dump it all together. It's a smack in the face and insult to individual efforts to try recycling. It's frustrating.
@ekesandras1481
@ekesandras1481 Жыл бұрын
In Sibiu seperate trucks are coming, one for residual garbage, one for plastic/metal, one for organic waste like leaves from the garden ... and once per month come the truck for paper.
@nnd18571
@nnd18571 Жыл бұрын
I live in Bucharest and I can say that the garbage is not picked up selectively. There was an initiative to pick the garbage selectively but the implementation is poor. I have friends and neighbours that want to dispose the garbage selectively, we want to do this like they do it in Germany, Denmark, Italy and other EU countries, but the authorities don't do enough to help us do this easier. There are ways to dispose the garbage selectively in Bucharest, but the people that want to do it have to make more effort for this, and not all people have the will to make this effort. It would be easier if the authorities introduce and enforce the rules that are in place for decades in western EU countries.
@UmbraWeiss
@UmbraWeiss Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, these same countries send tones after tons of their trash in the country to get rid of it, and not just in Romania, everywhere in the world, even if they selectively collect them, in the end all of that trash will be somewhere in the world in a poor country thrown at the field without a care in the world... the entire trash thing is just a black and white thing. The % of recycling is very low compared to the trash they collect. They send that all of China, but after the ban their new strategy is to send it everywhere possible....
@b.a.b7834
@b.a.b7834 Жыл бұрын
Why you guys are even part of EU what being so corrupt and disorganized? How could you achieve to join EU?
@Chelsea-vt3ib
@Chelsea-vt3ib Жыл бұрын
Why bother those countries are miserable
@Chelsea-vt3ib
@Chelsea-vt3ib Жыл бұрын
Those rules are terrible. Trust me.
@nnd18571
@nnd18571 Жыл бұрын
@@Chelsea-vt3ib I've been in most western EU countries and I liked the way they recycle. I was mostly impressed by Germany and Denmark. This is how we should all do it and not create huge waste dumps like we do now in Romania.
@aircraft721
@aircraft721 Жыл бұрын
I live in Cluj in Gheorgheni neighborhood and I can confirm that all the garbage trucks are mixing all the waste together. There is no concept of selective garbage collection in this part of Cluj. Also there are times when a very pestilential smell of burned garbage is infesting our neighborhood. This year it happened for 6 or 7 times already, but last year was way way worse. I hope those in charge will do something to fix this problem. Thank you DW for covering this topic.
@tylerscudder9358
@tylerscudder9358 Жыл бұрын
They never will lol there all corrupt
@georgpredescu970
@georgpredescu970 Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Sometimes the smell is unbearable and I never saw them collecting the waste selectively. Everything with the support and under protection of the city hall, county council and all the local agencies.
@RafaDiscoveries
@RafaDiscoveries Жыл бұрын
Kudos to this kind of journalism. This is public service! Completely agree public funds tend to be managed poorly
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@deadbirdwalking1159
@deadbirdwalking1159 Жыл бұрын
Agreed.. This kind of reporting IS journalism, the rest is just relaying opinions and activism.
@AndreiDante
@AndreiDante Жыл бұрын
Finally, someone outside our government's control comes to investigate problems here in Romania
@mrmrmrcaf7801
@mrmrmrcaf7801 Жыл бұрын
This happens all over the world, not only in Romania.
@ciprianpopa1503
@ciprianpopa1503 Жыл бұрын
There are reports all over the place in Romania. It doesn't matter. Maybe in this case those in charge would change their behavior, but I doubt. The guys in charge with dealing with garbage willfully make these moves, and the fines are paid by all. When fines will be paid directly by the guys who do this, maybe it will change something.
@AndreiDante
@AndreiDante Жыл бұрын
@@ciprianpopa1503 I know there are, look at what Recorder did in the past years. But if someone outside of Romania comes to investigate those issues, we might have a chance to eradicate these behaviours out of our country.
@ciprianpopa1503
@ciprianpopa1503 Жыл бұрын
@@AndreiDante Not sure. The news are discouraging. Instead of producing outrage, we have reactions like: this is also done in ... So, there is little chance that something would be done.
@Invading-Specious
@Invading-Specious Жыл бұрын
@@zoltankovacs629 there you know, that truth and its the italian mob is behind it.
@ozcmo
@ozcmo Жыл бұрын
I'm a Romanian, thx for covering this topic, the things in reality are even worse in my area, alot of people and companies burn the garbage, especially plastic and animal waste. Unacceptable, and all of this is covered by the local politicians which are also covered by high parliament politicians. This year in the month of April I called the police to stop them from burning plastic and animal waste but the police didn't even step up from the car to notify themselves about this things and the officer directly started to write me a sanction valued at €100 for false call, this is madness, hope to see more documentaries about this especially in the southern part of romania because imagine if this happen in the "developed western" part of the country the things are much worse in other parts and everything just to secure some additional money for the politicians.
@b.a.b7834
@b.a.b7834 Жыл бұрын
It's not a government. The corruption is in the culture of that country.
@INTJ791
@INTJ791 Жыл бұрын
the elites corruption again..
@kairossa8965
@kairossa8965 Жыл бұрын
is Romania - okay to trash that country. It is only fake EU - it is EU trash receptacle
@murrayeldred3563
@murrayeldred3563 Жыл бұрын
Oh dear😢😮😢😮
@geoms6263
@geoms6263 Жыл бұрын
shame on you, you don't wash your dirty laundry in public
@ygreq
@ygreq Жыл бұрын
You did not mention the fact that some of other EU countries's waste (to be recycled) ends up being "imported" into Romania and ends up in Romanian landfills.
@dragosgiurea5097
@dragosgiurea5097 Жыл бұрын
And who buy that garbage? Not romanians as well? It's easy to blame the EU countries, but we should look at us, we are to blame for this......well " the smart guys" are to be blame, not all romanians in general
@spamspam541
@spamspam541 Жыл бұрын
All comes down to romanian companies not following the lawful protocols and thereby offering cheaper solutions.
@spamspam541
@spamspam541 Жыл бұрын
@@bitbitbit137 you have no clue how the world works
@theodorsechesan593
@theodorsechesan593 Жыл бұрын
They forgot about it, after all, why bring it up when you can blame the black sheep?
@sorinvasiliu
@sorinvasiliu Жыл бұрын
it’s because there is no law in Romania. it’s the wild west of Europe. I mean we have laws, but they are not respected or enforced. the governmental agencies are very weak and full of corruption. if a private person wants to “get rid” of a few truckloads of trash, they can easily find some person that knows a way to dump them on some field near a village or something. many times in cooperation with people in said villages mayors office. corruption in Romania is like a cancer that has engulfed the entire country. we need EU’s help. they need to question much of what the government is reporting
@nikos9413
@nikos9413 Жыл бұрын
This happens in Greece, too. There are also a lot of "fire accidents" in recycling plants and recycling companies get compensations for their losses if an accident happens
@alindicu2000
@alindicu2000 Жыл бұрын
I am still washing my PET in order not to contaminate the rest of the garbage…I am still hoping something will change…
@zenddoor
@zenddoor Жыл бұрын
It will eventually, when the new generation will dare to stand up and protest. But man it's taking it's time. Keep giving the good example though!
@littlereptilian7580
@littlereptilian7580 Жыл бұрын
95% of plastic you throw for recycling gets thrown away even in Germany. If it's capable of recycling it's shipped in China. China has no regulations for environment so the rest gets thrown in the see. Somehow it's our fault , the consumers
@necbranduc
@necbranduc Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making the administration in the city I live in, a complete SHAME! While our mayor is out partying at the Untold festival, I'm glad this documentary was published. I hope his PR team will have a nightmare. As a citizen of Cluj, I've been trying to recycle and take out the trash and put it in their own bins, for more than 10 years. But whenever they came to pick up the trash, they always put everything together, in the same truck and sometimes they don't even look at what bins they are picking up.
@ciprianpopa1503
@ciprianpopa1503 Жыл бұрын
They don't know what shame is.
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Dominion (2018)
@kremesti
@kremesti Жыл бұрын
Please do a similar video for Bulgaria the waste management mafia is thriving there
@johntheaccountant5594
@johntheaccountant5594 Жыл бұрын
Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria are much the same. The EU countries can look forward to Albania joining the EU.
@r.a.3984
@r.a.3984 Жыл бұрын
Good for showing this! However I’m Bulgarian and in my city - Varna, we have a bit different system. The council pay to a company to collect the general waste, and a different company collect the plastic, glass and paper by themself as they recycle it and use it for new packaging - so that other company makes money from the garbage. That way the council pay less to the deposit of the garbage (as it is less to be deposited). Currently such a system is working even in the villages around Varna and I see that many people support it and try to do it correctly
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@scratchy996
@scratchy996 Жыл бұрын
Here in Romania, the waste and water companies have forced themselves in ( by orders from very high up ) and took over the city waste and water management. The waste and water was included in the tax. The private companies tripled the prices overnight. So now you have all city outskirts, all road sides, all river banks filled with trash, because the people don;' sign contracts with the private companies and just throw away trash wherever fits them best. There are trash mountains all over the countryside.
@matrixexposer6217
@matrixexposer6217 Жыл бұрын
​@@Joe-sg9ll You are a scam.
@marianscurtu4838
@marianscurtu4838 Жыл бұрын
La noi în zona Galațiului se aruncă pe câmp.
@kikiryki
@kikiryki Жыл бұрын
Here in Romania we have the same system only that, once the waste is raised, no rules are observed and the shortest route to profit is chosen. It's not people who are the problem, it's the state and the companies
@ambition112
@ambition112 Жыл бұрын
1:23: 🗑 The waste management center in Pata Rât, Romania, funded by the EU, is not functioning properly and poses health risks to nearby residents. 4:14: 😷 Living next to the old waste dump has negatively impacted the community's standard of living, causing health issues and social stigma. 9:19: 🗑 Romania's waste management system faces challenges in recycling and waste separation, leading to low recycling rates and mixed waste collection. 13:35: 🗑 Environmental activists express concerns about the mismanagement and poor implementation of waste management infrastructure in Cluj, despite the purchase and delivery of equipment. 16:59: 🗑 The waste management system in Cluj County, Romania, is facing issues with non-responsive operators, lack of recycling, and restricted access to the treatment center. 23:04: 😕 The European Commission spokesperson for regional policy discusses the implementation of a waste treatment project in Cluj County and emphasizes the importance of well-functioning waste treatment and recycling systems. 25:40: 😔 The speaker expresses disappointment and frustration with the lack of attention and accountability in managing cohesion policy projects funded by tax money. Recap by Tammy AI
@GholaTleilaxu
@GholaTleilaxu Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Tammy didn't get it. Try again after a few hundreds of years.
@bogdanp2125
@bogdanp2125 Жыл бұрын
​@@piotrekjerzynski3435 I think you are also one of the crazy activists.
@plslaugh8539
@plslaugh8539 Жыл бұрын
You saw just a small percentage of what is happening. I'm surprised you haven't had the chance to see all the garbage burning that's happening all across the country. There are a few "hot spots" for this practice, but actually, it is a country-wise practice and it is more shocking when you see a "recycling facility" do these things :)
@Slaaan
@Slaaan Жыл бұрын
Chances are they came across it but decided to focus on this one issue so they don't dilute the point.
@bbogddann
@bbogddann Жыл бұрын
Also, that burnt garbage is (often illegally) imported from other EU countries, including Germany...so maybe the point of the video was only to make Romania a bad guy and an EU parriah. Don't get me wrong, Romania does horribly in waste managing...but that is a multinational issue that should be addressed accordingly.
@VeganSemihCyprus33
@VeganSemihCyprus33 Жыл бұрын
Humans exploit and ruin everything and everyone by using technology 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
@popmihaela508
@popmihaela508 Жыл бұрын
Greetings from Brasov Romania! As citizen of this country I have started to recycle selectively in my home for the past 6 years now. I understand that after we dispose the properly sorted garbage, it is picked up by the operator and mixed back again. This country is corrupt! Our politicians imposed special pension to a category of people, I am working in the private sector since 2007 and I pay almost 50% taxes to the state. This country is governed by the same communists since 89, that's why nothing is working here. I voted since I was 18 years old but nothing good is happening. Vielen dank DW für diesen Bericht, vielleicht kann jemand erkennen vie korrupt unser Staat ist. Alles Gute!
@balsafarmers10
@balsafarmers10 Жыл бұрын
😢😢
@simplify2751
@simplify2751 Жыл бұрын
As a Romanian, I've never even seen a garbage truck with separate compartments that collects residential waste, and I live in the 3rd biggest city in the country. It's all going in one place, despite there being bins for paper, plastic etc. In the West it's very common to have even one truck per type of material, like glass. I don't want to say funds are wasted in Romania, but they are certainly mismanaged and the people who try to do something good and call attention to the problem are not taken seriously. I have called the local authorities in my city multiple times about plain issues like trash, stray/dangerous animals and so on and it's like nobody cares until you call the news and shame them into doing something.
@rsabinioan
@rsabinioan 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for reporting this. 3 weeks later after DW posting this investigation the whole city of Cluj-Napoca (Romania’s biggest city after Bucharest) smelled like trash and it was unbearable going out for a coffee or drink with friends. I couldn’t even open up my windows to let fresh air into my apartment. The same incident happened 3 years ago when they were incinerating the cumulated trash. It’s a shame because Cluj is a buzzing city with a lot of international students and workers and for some of them their first impression of the city is the human waste smell.
@viscarares9215
@viscarares9215 8 ай бұрын
Să fi ars nebunii din gunoi după reportaj ? De aceea a mirosit azi vară așa puternic ?
@era8693
@era8693 Жыл бұрын
Lets clarify something for those who may think, after watching this documentary, that Romania just wastes money from western European countries: Do not forget that those are money returned to Romania from its contributions to the EU budget. That is how EU budget works, every country contributes to the common budget according to its means. Of course, I am happy to see this documentary made by the DW team in Romania, as I want to see this being addressed and all of us improving. I will be even happier to see the same team doing the next one in the western European countries who illegally ship their garbage to Romania, this is going on for a long time and DW is not at all concerned.
@simplify2751
@simplify2751 Жыл бұрын
So glad someone mentioned waste being shipped here in exchange for money! Western countries get to pay to make Romania a landfill and our authorities allow it just to make some more money. I would also like to see a detailed investigation into this.
@Zdamaneta
@Zdamaneta Жыл бұрын
@@simplify2751 it will never happen, westerners only like to shite on Eastern European countries, they love to make documentaries that portray these countries in a very bad light.
@purpleldv966
@purpleldv966 Жыл бұрын
When you say: "let's clarify", and then you say a half-truth, you basically get the definition of disinformation! Romania does contribute to the EU budget, however, it is a net beneficiary of those funds! From 2007 to 2021 Romania received about 80 billion euro, and paid to the EU budget about 29 billion euro. And about the garbage brought from other countries, there are multiple reports in the western media, even on KZfaq, from agencies like France 24 English, News Channel, BBC, etc... But if Romania can solve that problem very easily (and it showed that it can) by checks and interdictions at the border, the domestic garbage problem is immensely more problematic and in this case the authorities showed that they are not willing to do much about it! P.S. Sunt roman.
@taliduat
@taliduat 11 ай бұрын
while true and all right just for completion sake: Romania is paying their share in the EU budget but their contributions are usually far lower that what they get out of it. - 2021 Romania paid almost 2,5 Billion € (1,5% of total budget) and got more than 6,5 Billion € (4% of the total budget) - 2017 Romania paid almost 1,25 Billion € (0,65% of total budget) and got more than 4,5 Billion (2,5% of total budget) 2018: + more than 1,5 Billion 2019: + almost 3,5 Billion 2008: + more than 1,5 Billion this are just a couple numbers I found in a hurry. I dont want to start a discussion on the effects of a larger EU Market and on foreign investment in Romania... but to mention the budget and saying that the romanian money is wasted and not "western" money... would not be a complete image of the situation.
@dodo12145
@dodo12145 8 ай бұрын
So true. In UAE, which is one of the cleanest country just collects all the trash and dump in one place. It's nothing new that one man's trash is another man's treasure.
@YouTubeviolatesmy1stamendment
@YouTubeviolatesmy1stamendment Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this is how recycling works in a lot of places it all just goes together You're lucky if it don't get shipped to another country and dumped in the ocean
@jcymngo
@jcymngo Жыл бұрын
Yes, that's what Canada does.
@CT-vm4gf
@CT-vm4gf Жыл бұрын
@@tazdingo5297If Asian countries can’t process it properly, then they shouldn’t accept it. Instead they back the truck up to the ocean and dump away.
@dodo12145
@dodo12145 8 ай бұрын
In UAE there is no concept of segregating trash. They just collect everything and dump in the ocean or landfills.
@fastfreddy918
@fastfreddy918 Жыл бұрын
Corruption is the reason. Corrupt Politicians are the problem. People are also lazy af. The need to build a power station and burn the waste and recoup the energy.
@DanishSpeakerChannel
@DanishSpeakerChannel Жыл бұрын
we do this here in denmark but hell it is expensive to run such garbage burning power plant
@Bubajumba
@Bubajumba Жыл бұрын
Just burning it is lazy to, start burning plastic and chemicals and they definitively gonna end up with a lot more problems
@DanishSpeakerChannel
@DanishSpeakerChannel Жыл бұрын
@@Bubajumba no
@Bubajumba
@Bubajumba Жыл бұрын
@@DanishSpeakerChannel =)
@adrianstere
@adrianstere Жыл бұрын
@@DanishSpeakerChannelThat’s one the reason why Romania don’t do that yet. While EU provide the funds to build the infrastructure, they don’t pay also for running it after. Same problem with all the infrastructure being highways or railways. You need to maintain it after on your own costs. And you need many not only one. If for Denmark is expensive I can just imagine the cost for Romania to run this. Corruption is a reality, but I think in this case it’s more about the costs. But generally Romanians blame everything on corruption. 😂 if if the weather is bad is corruption fault. In reality it’s usually more factors at play it’s not always that simple.
@somerandomfella
@somerandomfella Жыл бұрын
In Australia this recycling scam has been caught out 20 years ago but nothing has changed. Your recycling gets mixed together with general waste.
@capitanulcacaoernesto8215
@capitanulcacaoernesto8215 Жыл бұрын
you can just put the garbage in the desert man no need to colect there you have to much space
@johndoyle4723
@johndoyle4723 Жыл бұрын
Well it is not really a landfill, more a land raise, or Mount rubbish. Very depressing, I spent 30 years in the recycling industry in UK and saw many improvements, rogue items in the input waste were always a big problem, many waste collectors only wanted to pass the problem on to the recyclers, so when people do the segregation and collectors just mix it up again, it is all a waste of effort.
@b1646717
@b1646717 Жыл бұрын
The separated trash in my building doesn't even make it out before it's mixed with regular trash and thrown away. The people in charge bought blue bins and separate bags. They had signs put up. Made a big show of it. Then expected the custodians and housekeeping to do twice the work in the same time for the same pay.
@xy4489
@xy4489 Жыл бұрын
Same thing takes place in USA. Personal witness.
@TheMegahusky
@TheMegahusky Жыл бұрын
More people need to be alert to the issue of illegal waste. I wasn't surprised to see sorted waste being put in the same truck as paper, this is unacceptable. Surely the waste operators who lift recycled waste know this? Ireland and UK have the same problem. Great video by the way.
@RuleofFive
@RuleofFive Жыл бұрын
So what is that EU representative responsible for if he doesn’t even check to see if implementation is actually happening? What is the enforcement mechanism?
@Ymma58
@Ymma58 Жыл бұрын
Back handers
@Jackieception
@Jackieception Жыл бұрын
as long as the implementation of the EU funds is implemented in the right pockets of the buddies and filthy mici eaters, then the implementation is a success! the rest is fresh word salad for you to enjoy
@ilijaandrevski2749
@ilijaandrevski2749 Жыл бұрын
He basically said that if authorities of a country where a project is implemented don't care about a 'way' project is implemented, we don't care either. We just look if all boxes are ticked and are not payed enough to go further than that.
@florinmargineann5647
@florinmargineann5647 Жыл бұрын
Let's not forget, România has only 30 years of democracy and "normality".And 30 yrs is just one generation, the next one will do better.
@Science1144
@Science1144 Жыл бұрын
Thats a lame excuse. Poland and Czechia are the same in that, but manage so much better
@florinmargineann5647
@florinmargineann5647 Жыл бұрын
@@Science1144 If you compare the life under comunism from România with the ones from Czech R. & Poland... and i ll stop there. România it was the only comm. country in Europe where Moscow's plan fully succeeded. It suffered the most and still pays tribute.
@Science1144
@Science1144 Жыл бұрын
@@florinmargineann5647 i don't say anything about communism. I just respond on your mention for countries which were NOT democratic. But probably your right, although something tells me that it has to do more with corruption that România didn't progress so far yet.. ?
@eedragonr
@eedragonr Жыл бұрын
​@@florinmargineann5647may we see something online about that?
@susisblusis
@susisblusis Жыл бұрын
I believe there is a similar situation in many eastern European countries. Ex-soviet union countries have a bad infrastructure to accommodate recycling and corruption is still present. It is very disappointing. Thank you for the report. I hope things get better
@wdzienkowski
@wdzienkowski Жыл бұрын
In Slovakia we paid about 60 euro per year for the waste. We were told that if we separate it’ll be cheaper. Now we have common waste, paper, plastic, glass, organic, electro, clothing, aluminium, tetra pack containers! And we separate… how much did I paid this year for the waste??? 170 euro!!! For what?!?!?! I’m never going to separate waste again… just through whatever waste I have in my hand in any waste bin I find. Don’t care.
@piccalillipit9211
@piccalillipit9211 Жыл бұрын
@@wdzienkowski - well its your country you are destroying.
@instructoruldemeditatie2367
@instructoruldemeditatie2367 Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in your western world your children lives are destroyed by the gender ideology and drugs...Go figure.
@xc6013
@xc6013 Жыл бұрын
@@wdzienkowski low salaries in east europe should also be taken into consideration
@EIyssium
@EIyssium Жыл бұрын
Corruption still being present is such an understatement, in Romania it's a fundamental feature, climbing the political ladder is impossible in the current ruling parties without this trait.
@Mexican00b
@Mexican00b Жыл бұрын
i want to know where EU is "eliminating" landfill and where all that trash is actually send to ASIA...
@700K-pp9wm
@700K-pp9wm Жыл бұрын
Probably less than 0.1 % is shipped to Asia
@adrianstere
@adrianstere Жыл бұрын
It’s not send to ASIA anymore but to Romania, the new colony of EU 😂 basically a landfill
@dtf.eternal5857
@dtf.eternal5857 Жыл бұрын
Romania has way bigger problems than this. Comparing Romania to others developed EU countries is silly, especially hypocritical when whole forests are being razed to the ground by the very countries that point the finger at Romania's problems. The country is doing well, considering is has the communist tumour deep ingrained into their politics to this very day. + Everyone moans about couple hundred thousands gypsies wrecking havoc in the EU, while Romania has 4 millions of them. Changes don't come overnight people I'm sure that's a given.
@DenzelArachci-zy3qp
@DenzelArachci-zy3qp Жыл бұрын
Don't be racist about Roma people. Instead give them a chance to integrate.
@dorian8475
@dorian8475 Жыл бұрын
@@DenzelArachci-zy3qpcome here and see, they have more chances than us
@sebastianb.1926
@sebastianb.1926 Жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen - the Romanian libertarian. A stereotype imported from the US.
@dtf.eternal5857
@dtf.eternal5857 Жыл бұрын
@@DenzelArachci-zy3qp Sweden has given them every chance humanely possible, did they integrate? No Bubba, they didn't, but they also call everyone racists, just like you, when people are pointing out hardcore facts and realities.
@raycon921
@raycon921 Жыл бұрын
there's no bigger hypocrisy than that of the west, nothing new here
@ELPULANTO
@ELPULANTO Жыл бұрын
What needs to happen is EU COMMISSION to man up and actually manage these projects especially when an independent body verifies that the goal of the project is badly achieved.
@popularopinion2181
@popularopinion2181 Жыл бұрын
Exactly! You can't just give out 300 mil and not bother to check whether the work is actually being done properly.
@geekootz
@geekootz Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely true. Caused by the pure incompetence and corruption of the county authorities headed by Alin Tise.
@Pcatalin66
@Pcatalin66 Жыл бұрын
I am romanian and i am happy to see foreign journalist’s showing how corruption is destroying this country. Our free journalists need help because they are ignored by officials. But with foreign journalists raising awareness maybe they will feel some shame and try make romania a nice place to live again. Keep going and keep trowing hate and shame on them
@FedericoTesta1
@FedericoTesta1 Жыл бұрын
This happens in many countries, not only in Romania
@Bubajumba
@Bubajumba Жыл бұрын
Yes, but those countries don't get shit ton of money to build proper recycling facilities.
@huluqi3972
@huluqi3972 Жыл бұрын
Other countries build something else, and they also get shit ton of money from top authorities, as long as it's endless printed new money, ppl who want money find ways/connections to go for it in the shortest/simplest/scamiest ways It's why you see so many projects/buildings/structures/tofu-projects failed over and over, and disarsters through out the decades
@huluqi3972
@huluqi3972 Жыл бұрын
Can also be seen as Greed achieved through violence, as state controls the army/police and have close connections with mobs and also have access to global/newest technology through playing power/hunger games, in reverse to finest the symbolic power in their own hands
@timecorn
@timecorn Жыл бұрын
We have the same issue in Bulgaria
@al85v
@al85v Жыл бұрын
@@Bubajumbaof course they do, Check Bulgaria or Poland :)
@sorin862000
@sorin862000 Жыл бұрын
Yes we can do better but i think this happenes all over the world. This is nothing compared to the ocean disposal of radioactive waste from 1946 through 1993. Thirteen countries used ocean as a method to dispose of nuclear or radioactive waste with an approximation of 200,000 tons sourcing mainly from the medical, research and nuclear industry. Romania is not one of them.
@shankswrc3509
@shankswrc3509 Жыл бұрын
This is also happening in Portugal in some extent.
@raresp7218
@raresp7218 Жыл бұрын
You should say something about the garbage coming from eu countries loaded in houndreds of lorries and disposed in Romania.
@alss9823
@alss9823 Жыл бұрын
Yep, welcome to the Wild East. Maybe you should ask around the EU politicians also about the garbage imports from Western countries...for which seems like its easier and cheaper to dispose garbage in East than to recycle...
@Shogoeu
@Shogoeu Жыл бұрын
Due to rampant corruption, the situation is similar in Bulgaria. Some of our cities had hired external firm to do recycling and everything was great, but then the contract was not renewed and instead a local companies owned by families of politicians took over - of course there was practically no recycling after that.
@kremesti
@kremesti Жыл бұрын
Bravo for the makers of this video
@fabiolabarone5798
@fabiolabarone5798 Жыл бұрын
Same in italy
Жыл бұрын
This is just one of the millions of irregularities of the "famous city" of Cluj Napoca. I live in Manastur and the garbage is not only collected together, but even the tenants of the blocks do not select the garbage they throw away. Whether it's plastic, whether it's wet or paper, it's all put in a bag together. And the municipality doesn't care!! As long as they are having that bloody festival and center of the city "clean and beautiful" the rest can die, for all they care.
@emese-tundetorok1135
@emese-tundetorok1135 11 ай бұрын
"Despite having the second-lowest waste-recycling rates in the European Union, Romania has become overflowing with waste and garbage - most of it brought in illegally from abroad."
@David_Oance
@David_Oance Жыл бұрын
Before making this video you should have contacted @Activistul Incomod. He goes around the country to illegal landfills enforcing the law on them. He is the most experienced man in Romania in this field.
@velomaniaromania
@velomaniaromania Жыл бұрын
I am from Oradea - Romania We do sort the trash selective and is pick-up same way ( selective ) Plastic things are always washed by my family before we dump them. ( same things I did in Dublin ) Almost the whole city selects selective garbage and the authorities really get involved
@cezarstefanseghjucan
@cezarstefanseghjucan Жыл бұрын
Oradea must be given as a counter-example, because things can work in Romania, but no cover-up must happen.
@gabyonsoft09
@gabyonsoft09 11 ай бұрын
cu o floare nu se face primavara.
@ovidiuc4
@ovidiuc4 Жыл бұрын
This might be an unpopular opinion, but 318 million over a period of 6 years is 53 million per year. That is nothing for a country the size of Romania. The fact that a big chunk of the funds get stolen is of course important, but even if they weren't, one still wouldn't get anything done with such low amounts. I think the article should have also put more accent on the lack of law enforcement. While the younger population wants to recycle, good luck convincing the older folk by just putting some labels on the bins. In one of those bins for cardboard it's impossible not to find mixed trash. It's a chicken before the egg thing: the population doesn't properly recycle, the companies don't properly collect. And they blame each other. The horse trying to get that car out was unnecessary and the poor horse shouldn't have to suffer for you to get the "dramatic" shot.
@eedragonr
@eedragonr Жыл бұрын
Elderly people are not able to recycle. They never did it in their life and are not able to learn to do it.
@AlexandruLipan
@AlexandruLipan Жыл бұрын
I live in Piatra Neamt and the local company bring half to the official sorting plant in Girov and half to an unofficial dumping ground in the Vânători neighborhood, and they still doing stuff. When in April a new company was to take the rubbish collecting (the same that in Cluj mixes all together) the district council suspended to contract allocation.
@GotterVibez
@GotterVibez Жыл бұрын
My question is a bit different: why are so much plastic bottles being produced ? And why don' t the big supermarkets accept the bottles from customers to be reused?
@182bastard
@182bastard 11 ай бұрын
Bc the big companies don't actually care about the environment. It's all about making money
@mispalobti4982
@mispalobti4982 Жыл бұрын
So the EU sees the importance in not dumping trash carelessly, but has no issues carelessly dumping trash in so-called periphery countries. The world is a sad joke
@dodo12145
@dodo12145 8 ай бұрын
EU itself is corrupt. They just need someone to blame it. How about these activists don't investigate why the trash from Western Europe is being imported in Romania.
@rafelbodi2798
@rafelbodi2798 Жыл бұрын
What a shame. Everyone should pay for the non recycled waste, as we do in Switzerland. Everyone would be willing to recycle. Specialty governments, municipality, and counties.
@kairossa8965
@kairossa8965 Жыл бұрын
Switzerland just pay to get your trash dumped out of sight. You are the cause of this problem!
@rsm5627
@rsm5627 Жыл бұрын
Recycled waste is not always recycled; although it should be.
@fringe_minority
@fringe_minority Жыл бұрын
Everyone? Even billions of poor people in the world? Or just the europeans
@ptunder
@ptunder Жыл бұрын
Then maybe stop sending your non recyclebles and dangerous wastes to easter europe
@praisekek8263
@praisekek8263 Жыл бұрын
@@fringe_minority oy vey, stop with this questions
@adam19890911
@adam19890911 Жыл бұрын
I live in Satu Mare and we have a seperate bag for dry plastics every 2 weeks, wich is collected by annother dumpntruck. After that I don't know what happens
@zenddoor
@zenddoor Жыл бұрын
In some ways there was better recycling before. The poor people would stroll the dump and collect the plastic because they could make money with it. Of course that was a horrible situation, so good that that changed (I think?), but yes we have nice new separate bins but trash gets in the same truck and that's very discouraging. In Florești (next to Cluj) the plan is even to let people pay by weight even (separately) for their plastic and paper waste. New trucks would be introduced that would weigh your garbage, everybody had to sign up, everybody started to lock up the communal (block/flat) bins because of the pricing by weight, but no new trucks yet and the pickup is worse than before. Also the paying by weight is a horrible idea because trash being dumped in the (beautiful) mountains is already a big problem.
@pointervilnius
@pointervilnius Жыл бұрын
Please do more investigation like this. EU fund money are necessary and help eastern and central EU members to develop, but there is so much corruption. E.g. in Lithuania small cities cut down trees and lay bricks to "modernise" streets and squares and they do it just to "get EU fund money" and to do overpriced renovation. Such projects not only waste money, but also disfigure beautiful small cities by making it look like cement wasteland once all trees are cutdown.
@szilveszter10
@szilveszter10 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for covering this topic. The waste management is something that is poorly made in Romania, nevertheless the funds that EU is providing, the results are not visible. Although the Romanian jurisdiction and the EU's waste management law clearly covers the standard processes, the authorities are failing to enforce the applicable law.
@georgesos
@georgesos Жыл бұрын
Same thing happens in Greece. Recycling factories that as soon as they fill their storage suddenly burn to the ground. You should make a documentary about it too.
@quant2565
@quant2565 11 ай бұрын
Well done documentary, thanks for sharing this important topic that doesn't have enough media coverage
@DWDocumentary
@DWDocumentary 11 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback.
@M_alienWorld
@M_alienWorld Жыл бұрын
Thank you DW for the documentary! We, the honest citizens, are aware of these problems and we feel empowered when we are validated in our concerns. Once the spotlight is on them, our 'beloved' politicians will stop ignoring our complaints, and stop these dirty deals (or so we hope!).
@mrmrmrcaf7801
@mrmrmrcaf7801 Жыл бұрын
This happens in many countries, not only in Romania...I was just watching in the UK how they take the trash selected and sorted by the people and throw it all in the same place 😂
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928 Жыл бұрын
@@biyumusicdo you recycle?
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928 Жыл бұрын
@@biyumusic answering a question with a question is kind of odd but yes… yes I do. My original question remains unanswered though.
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928 Жыл бұрын
@@biyumusic I don’t see a cookie? I want my cookie! You can’t answer questions and now you can’t bake either?
@eedragonr
@eedragonr Жыл бұрын
Feels like home
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928
@sureshotexplodingtargets2928 Жыл бұрын
@@biyumusic I asked you a simple question, I even answered yours. Go feed your cats.
@arizenation3188
@arizenation3188 Жыл бұрын
Im american and ive lived in almost every state. We dont recycle anything pretty much because youd have to drive miles most places. However michigan has a 10 cent deposit on carbonated cans and people will come turn in their beer cans at walmart. Its the only recycling policy ive seen that people use here.
@M_alienWorld
@M_alienWorld Жыл бұрын
I live in Cluj, and this is a smaller compact city, where people don't necessarily need cars - and they would not bring stuff to recycle centers themselves. The recyclincg trucks come weekly, many ppl do separate plastic and such from regular thrash - but the city disposal companies don't do their job at the back end. What is VERY annoying is that things just got MUCH WORSE this year, when a huge disposal company called Supercom signed a deal for the whole county. It was kind'a clear, based on what they promised, that it's all a lie - e.g. they promised to weigh garbage cans weekly and charge individual monthly fees - which does not happen. Their service is much worst than the company before them, at least in my 'hood. UGH!!!!
@M_alienWorld
@M_alienWorld Жыл бұрын
when I lived in Boston we had a calendar for city recycling - plastic, cardboard and such, twice a month
@mihaimuraru8976
@mihaimuraru8976 Жыл бұрын
It's a bit of hypocrisy here to claim Germany solved garbage issues. It solved by exporting to poorer countries like Romania or Turkey, not by recycling.
@nicolaemierla1672
@nicolaemierla1672 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for bringing the awareness to more numbers of people!
@antallaczko8793
@antallaczko8793 11 ай бұрын
No they are not wasted. Think about the cheap workforce moving to the Western countries. Think about the cheap natural resources supplied to the west. Think about the expensive products supplied back from west. If the EU would not have needed Romania and Bulgaria, they definitely would not have accepted them. BTW eu taxpayers' funds are stolen in every member country, the only difference is it is not visible and obvious everywhere.
@yishislassieswaiting4748
@yishislassieswaiting4748 Жыл бұрын
In 1971 my Science prof at uni told us his story of inventing a process of crushing garbage into OIL very QUICKLY with heavy pressure. He sold the patent to a company like Shell. They shelved the idea. (Pun intended &; > ). What a FRUSTRATING world we live in!
@perfectallycromulent
@perfectallycromulent Жыл бұрын
a patent means very little. you can get a patent on something that won't work outside of a laboratory in real world conditions, and the patent examiners and inventors have no clue how much it will cost to implement whatever the invention is, and they really don't care. but there sure are plenty of great inventions that would be insanely expensive to implement. you have no clue what went on with this invention, assuming your professor is even making an accurate statement about reality instead of puffing himself up. except we do know that, if there was a patent from the 1960s, it expired in the 80s or so, so anyone could use the technology that shell was allegedly keeping secret since then without shell able to do a thing.
@tehnikpaul
@tehnikpaul Жыл бұрын
Dear Germans, as a Romanian I am offended how your hard earned money is spent in Eastern Europe. You have the power to demand tighter controls or even a suspension of these funds. We, the Romanians, cannot fight the former Securitate, our Stasi, that has taken over our country. Please help us. This problem has been around for years, a consortium of journalists from Organized Crime & Corruption - Reporting Project (OCCRP) has written about this 5 years ago. If something isn't done to condition the funds, Romanians will have no benefit, they will keep blaming the EU, whilst only organized crime will prosper.
@adrianstere
@adrianstere Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@stephenball-qo7ug
@stephenball-qo7ug Жыл бұрын
This will happen in every country, why pick on the Romanians. Welcome to the con.
@theslacker
@theslacker Жыл бұрын
i saw the same thing on a garbage platform near hofstetten, bavaria.
@razvanbro4478
@razvanbro4478 Жыл бұрын
So you basically show 5 tires on a huge deposit and then show the garbage collecting company collecting the ordinary waste and you argue that they mixed the selective collected waste even tough you film only the general waste being collected. This is so manipulative.
@sugipulaboule9
@sugipulaboule9 Жыл бұрын
It's all about brainwash
@isaakmorse6044
@isaakmorse6044 Жыл бұрын
Now let me introduce you to the waste management of western Countries, especially the UK. First, rubbish is collected from people by the companies in selective bins (recyclable to recyclable, food to food, garden waste to garden waste, etc. ). After this rubbish is deposited and after that, it is sold to other companies who claim that it will transport the rubbish to be recycled or stored according to the regulations. In reality, the rubbish ends up in Maldives, Africa, and Easter Europe, all together, mixed and burned or left on the riversides.
@klaus6740
@klaus6740 Жыл бұрын
Btw Romania is a western country. It’s in Europe on the eastern and central part of Europe. “Westernism” came from south east europe from Greece.
@polishenglishnorwegiandutch
@polishenglishnorwegiandutch Жыл бұрын
The problem is not only the lack of honesty from those who got the funds but also the lack of control from the EU. Similar scams can be found in all EU countries. EU inspectors should control every single initiative that gets money from EU in detail.
@maddabel
@maddabel Жыл бұрын
Great material, thanks for publishing this. I think we have this problem everywhere in Romania... Meanwhile on my street in Bucharest they took away the recycling bins to make room for a couple more parking spots on the sidewalk. 😶 It would be great if you could add Romanian subtitles to this video.
@venividi8883
@venividi8883 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Romania, thank you for your documentary,
@oldsteamguy
@oldsteamguy Жыл бұрын
This documentary does a good job of introducing a problem. I hope there will be a follow up.
@jackb3493
@jackb3493 Жыл бұрын
Landfill is a debt. As these sites, both current and historic, deteriorate through weathering and subsidence it will become a massive source of pollution. It will be the responsibility of my generation to eventually unearth and reprocess the entirety of what has been dumped in landfill
@NSF-zf3nr
@NSF-zf3nr Жыл бұрын
The EU wanted Romania to be a part of the union in order to utilize its resources, workforce, etc., treating it as a dumping ground. Corrupt governments are prevalent throughout Europe, leading to the destruction of the weakest nations. However, videos like these will not contribute much to the well-being of Romanians, as they become desensitized and struggle to survive their own government's corruption. Eu funds are meant to create a strong financial EU but all the advantages are for large corporations.
@Ghreinos
@Ghreinos Жыл бұрын
You didn't get it, Romanias officials are corrupt!
@thestevenjaywaymusic7775
@thestevenjaywaymusic7775 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your work. Keep exposing these issues.
@alex.p.b.
@alex.p.b. Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. Everybody knows that. Let's show where the unselected garbage from Germany goes to. (east Europe, Asia and África). German authorities see nothing?! Oh no, they do it legally, but that garbage is thrown in the sea or simply somewhere abandoned. So no control overall.
@laviniam.1526
@laviniam.1526 Жыл бұрын
Check out The recycling myth: What actually happens to our plastic ( from DW Planet A channel )
@codyrap95
@codyrap95 Жыл бұрын
As a Romanian I can confirm. Yes, EU funds are largely wasted in Romania, not only on this, but also entrepreneurship grants, education grants etc. Corruption eats everything
@cezarstefanseghjucan
@cezarstefanseghjucan Жыл бұрын
The EU needs to dispatch independent commissions and fine the hell out of the politicians and companies who receive European money.
@mdaniel5384
@mdaniel5384 11 ай бұрын
@@cezarstefanseghjucan Nobody will then take any risks to access EU funds. People should understand that Romanians are not Danes, it will take decades and generations for people to change. And it's not just corruption, it's incompetence and bad laws and, again, these take time to change.
@Thunder516
@Thunder516 11 ай бұрын
@@mdaniel5384 how is that a bad thing? Maybe there should be some consequences for reckless 'risk taking' - otherwise it's a net sum game where it's better to take the money and try to be corrupt and keep it without delivering much of anything, and if it doesn't work just give it back. Best case scenario they waste people's time - worst, they get away with it.
@mdaniel5384
@mdaniel5384 11 ай бұрын
@@Thunder516 How about EU provide experts to help implement properly the projects with EU funds? Otherwise nobody will bother considering how many risks there are for something to go wrong. It's also the law to select the cheapest offer and this has usually very bad results.
@crystaltarot9396
@crystaltarot9396 Жыл бұрын
I always wondered if these funds allocated from European union to our country are ever investigated in any form ,because of the corruption what happens is that these money are getting in their pockets instead of fulfilling the purpose they were borrowed in the first place,our generations are getting in debt more and more and for nothing,it’s unbelievable.Something needs to be done
@ursu16codrutza
@ursu16codrutza Жыл бұрын
As a Romanian, I want to thank you for covering these topics and please cover other topics as well, expose them so maybe things will change for the better for us.
@DWDocumentary
@DWDocumentary Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
@szabovlad9914
@szabovlad9914 Жыл бұрын
The problem it's not only in Romania or caused by it. I worked in the port of Constanța in Romania and weekly ships with containers full of waste were coming from UK, Netherlands and Portugal. Unsorted, unmarked and with no destination. They were literally sending them here to be abandoned in the port. Yes, garbage was also sorted at home and put into diferent trash cans, and then taken in the same trash truck at night. Because of the outrage of the people who saw this, they are now sending diferent trucks to take them separately, but I have no clue where they end up. The problem is that plastic is still cheaper as new then recycled and the garbage moguls aren't making money out of it. Probably only glass. At this point, isn't it more efective to basically burn it? Yeah, polluting the atmosphere, but what do you think China is doing?
@montydevere9671
@montydevere9671 Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. But how do we fix this? The documentary is a great start, but what next?
@tinaandro1178
@tinaandro1178 Жыл бұрын
My brother has to drive so he can throw his garbage in reciclying Bins, I have a trash bag full of cosmetic bottles and I have to go to the mall with them so I can dispose it properly, same with clothes that can't be donated. At work we only have one trashcan for everything.A lot of people living in condos said they tried to throw their garbage selectively, even pitching in an buying separated trashcans for the whole apartment complex only to give up after continuously seeing that the garage man throwing them together.I saw this susccefully done but in smaller villages where the mayor actually gets involved.
@JabbarTV1
@JabbarTV1 Жыл бұрын
"Watching this from Egypt where we don't separate anything and still burn trash in open landfills"
@adriantiron1665
@adriantiron1665 Жыл бұрын
The hypocrisy .Why not mentioning the garbage sent from other EU countries ???? I can tel you for sure that in the”civilised” rest of the EU is the same. Garbage is separated on the street but going on the same damping site.
@revelonis
@revelonis Жыл бұрын
Exactly the same in Greece, please extend your investigation to there as well.
@user-hj2nk6nj6w
@user-hj2nk6nj6w 11 ай бұрын
yes, greece is 3rd worldd country
@A15251
@A15251 Жыл бұрын
I think same is in Lithuania :/
@esclover2620
@esclover2620 Жыл бұрын
I dont Get it. Why do countries and Eu allow people to have landfils. No type of garbage is mean to be in the nature, it is ment to be send to a recycling-factory. Throwing trash on a landfil should have been abolished by EU.
@irina8345
@irina8345 Жыл бұрын
please put romanian subtitles so that we can share it to the romanian people :)
@abdullahuzuner111
@abdullahuzuner111 Жыл бұрын
Thx for this great documentary, I guess it’s quite real journalism. Nowadays lt is hard to find this kind of documentaries but thanks to dw news .
@DWDocumentary
@DWDocumentary Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@ginganohashira1312
@ginganohashira1312 Жыл бұрын
This documentary expresses the reason why me and my family left Romania. No one feels responsible, everyone complains, things don't get done. People actually wanting to recycle are a minority, therefore with no social support or desire it will fail. Same is applicable for any other aspects that are lacking in terms of infrastructure and services. in regards to Projects... well, typical project management. Very fragmented (or agile, haha) with no one entity holding ownership of the deliverable. This makes accountability impossible, which leads to absolutely no repercussions for failure. In the majority of cases the consumer represents the consequence if a product or deliverable is not to the expected standards. Therefore, it is not a surprise that 5.7 million Romanians have "unsubscribed" from their country and are pursuing a better quality of life outside of it.
@CRP17
@CRP17 Жыл бұрын
Where do you have the 5,7 million numbers? Also by running away and overpopulating western Europea by making them a harder life (raise of flat rents, taking their jobs for less money, etc)
@computerfan1079
@computerfan1079 Жыл бұрын
This is very important journalism. The people at pata rat have been suffering for too long
@HideorEscape
@HideorEscape Жыл бұрын
You should do a documentary in the Hoia-Baciu forest too, it is full of garbage and contaminated with little bits of plastic EVERYWHERE! They have money for Untold festival, concrete, malls and entertainment but no money to collect all this garbage and to create actual recycling facilities.
@floringeorgechirila9127
@floringeorgechirila9127 Жыл бұрын
My country is domed…there is trash everywhere unfortunately but no one doesn’t do anything about it due to corruption.
@Iceyfire12
@Iceyfire12 Жыл бұрын
Which country
@Zdamaneta
@Zdamaneta Жыл бұрын
@@Iceyfire12 Somalia.
@electrosyzygy
@electrosyzygy Жыл бұрын
Where I'm from, mafia is often involved at many stages of waste management. Perhaps Romania has the same problem?
@adrianstere
@adrianstere Жыл бұрын
Yep. Garbage is one is the most successful business. 😂 many people have no idea how much money is involved there.
@littlereptilian7580
@littlereptilian7580 Жыл бұрын
Italy?
@electrosyzygy
@electrosyzygy Жыл бұрын
@@littlereptilian7580 Canada. Everywhere there is a large Italian diaspora, the mafia comes with it. Things aren't nearly as bad as Romania or other countries with high corruption, but the pattern is there. The Italian mafia tends to operate in fields where there will be large government contracts (waste removal and management, construction, road works, snow removal, etc.).
@dodo12145
@dodo12145 8 ай бұрын
​​@@adrianstere so true 😂😂😂😂. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
@valentinalexandru9478
@valentinalexandru9478 Жыл бұрын
You cannot instill morals into corrupt animals... They can only be bettered by punishment
@julsstefano7729
@julsstefano7729 Жыл бұрын
The fact of driving in a vegetation covered trench is not that ia someone is sabotaging your investigation. That is pure stupidity. But overall, good job with the investigation.
@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi
@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi Жыл бұрын
the same happens in Germany etc. except the garbage is mixed at the destination then burned: recycling plastic is actually illegal in EU because it is contaminated with food
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