The soldiers of the Investigative Unit of the Environmental, Agri-Food and Forestry Police (NIPAAF) have ascertained in C.da Motta in the municipality of Castrolibero the presence of an illegal landfill built on land used by a furniture factory. During the control activity, three distinct areas within it were seized, for a total of approximately 700 square meters.
In these areas, fenced and closed, heterogeneous and special waste was found such as bulky waste, material resulting from construction works, vegetation waste, out-of-use furniture, glass and iron parts and vegetation waste as well as hazardous and non-hazardous waste such as containers. metal lubricants, plastic products, refrigerators, dishwashers, sofas and twelve vehicle carcasses.
The activity, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Cosenza in which the soldiers of the Carabinieri Forestry Unit of Cosenza participated, led, in addition to the seizure of the area, to the complaint from the owner of the company as well as sole director for illicit waste disposal. They were also raised to the owners of the cars administrative sanctions for an amount of 20,000 euros.