The transfer outside the region of non -hazardous waste from the remediation of the site of National Interest of Crotone has begun today. The first trucks started this morning from the Eni Rewind website as part of a program that concerns the transfer of 1,570 tons of non -hazardous waste that are part of the ten thousand tons already removed.
The transfer will continue in the next few days. The waste, after the characterization, selection and homologation operations, will be loaded on over one hundred heavy vehicles, at a rhythm of 15 per day, and sent to plants and landfills authorized in various Italian regions. In all phases, environmental and health checks will be carried out with the support of the Carabinieri and Technicians of Arpacal, the Agency for the protection of the environment of the Calabria Region. The operation marks the beginning of the disposal, outside Crotone and Calabria, of over 400 thousand tons of non -hazardous waste and 360 thousand tons of hazardous waste. According to the extraordinary commissioner for the Sin of Crotone, Emilio Errigo, present at the start of the trucks, “this is the first concrete action of reclamation of an abusive landfill never authorized by the Calabria Region and where for decades, waste containing heavy metals, radionuclides and asbestos have been deposited”.
As regards the dangerous waste containing Tenorm, asbestos and heavy metals, not displaceable in Italy, Eni Rewind has already communicated that it has been authorized by Sweden to export it by Crotone 40 thousand tons to be conferred by 25 May next year. The waste will be transferred to container, via Nave, from the port of Gioia Tauro.