The billion-dollar waste business | DW Documentary
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- Waste has been disposed of illegally in Europe for years - with billions of euros in turnover. In Romania, toxic smog in Bucharest stems from German waste being incinerated along the city’s outskirts.
Recycling waste costs money. Instead, it’s often incinerated or buried - whether car tires, batteries, or even asbestos. This environmentally damaging practice is highly lucrative for a select few. In Romania, there is growing outrage. Octavian Berceanu, a former commissioner for the Romanian environmental police is now a climate activist who tracks down waste smugglers. “These are organized crime structures!” he says. Meanwhile, Romanian prosecutor Teodor Nita is investigating the waste mafia in collaboration with the European law enforcement agency Europol. But it is no easy task to prove wrongdoing on the part of the companies, intermediaries, and clients involved. A report by Lavinia Pitu.
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For years, the rich developed countries got rid of their wastes thru the easy way - disposing them to poor corrupted 3rd world countries. Despite all these glaring illegal activities, the rich developed countries love to criticize other countries of corruptions, when they themselves are the pathetic perpetuators of corruptions in the first place.
Conclusion: Hypocrisy at their best.
it takes two to tango
Sure....but if the disposers have no money to grease (or rather, unwilling to bribe the corrupted political leaders) do you think the recipient nations will readily accept their trashes / rubbishes?
They know how much money it costs to process the waste anywhere in the world. they are engineers, they're not stupid. this makes german waste senders also criminals.
It's the capitalist blaming the worker for being exploited and poor, when it is 100% the capitalists fault for choosing to be in the position. It is the historic role of the workers to overthrow capitalism to free both the worker and the capitalists. U.S. capitalism will be overthrown, permanently.
It brings tears to my eyes.
@Legalize Raping Russian Broads In America CHIPKO movement launched in Indian Himalayan states had also been the same i.e. HUG a tree whenever authorities or some company people were there to cut the tree. CHIPKO means hugging tightly.......and the activist of CHIPKO had nothing to do with hippie culture.
Follow the money and you will find fraud, waste, abuse and greed.
The regular person on the street doesn't know what happens to the waste past throwing it away. Smh
Save Our Planet
Never....says the money.
Screw the planet
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Make waste exports illegal all across the globe. Wherever it has been made, has to be recycled too!
In the US, we have been sending some of the worst waste to Washington DC, it sits around decaying and is a terrible eyesore that stinks everything up and ruins the entire vibe of the country unfortunately.
DW is really conscious about the climate change and environment. So many great documentaries about climate change. "Four Girls on a mission" was by far my favourite documentary.
Plastic recycling does not work economically. Many companies elect to use new plastics because it is cheaper than recycled plastics. They may include 10% or some other small quantity of recycled plastic for show.
Shameful
To save this planet: For humans its last priority
Only few organization/people are serious
U will find the air is polluted in bucharest, 100km straight and even more, in any direction. I find it hard to breathe when im passing through bucharest area.
There are too many types of plastics. Standards need to be strict so that recycling is actually feasible. And building to last, rather than the quick replacement business model, needs to return. Too much is packaged for absolute convenience too. Plus we were already having way too many things delivered, which is packaging on top of packaging without any real economy of scale (businesses get to ignore the costs of waste and pollution, while living off of corporate handouts that exceed net profit).
Stop dumping the waste in others' backyard. Don't be like these rich European countries that dump waste on others to keep their backyard clean.
There is no simple solution to waste management. First of all, we should consume less and produce less waste. Recycling should be encouraged and incentivised at all level. Technology for recycling should be improved. Consumption --> growth cycle should be curtailed with technology and innovation and above all the social discipline in people's mind.
At least some media houses talks about it. 👍🏼👍🏼
Thrash generation is much more in rich countries than poor ones. Rich r not recycling much as it is costly uneconomic ,trying to dump in poor countries.
It's costly to recycle. Not economic for most countries
@@robertburnam5433 INCINERATORS.
@@tuforu4 that would be OK but the pollutants would be bad, still would have to separate and that takes people which takes money.. I haven't seen recycling done on a large scale. cities in the United States try it but loose tons of money.. a small scale they use to power city bus or garbage trucks
@@robertburnam5433 we seperate out rubbish here into different household bins . We drop glass at supermarket recycling skips...ok
@@robertburnam5433 watch the guy from the poorest place RONNIE-GUITAR FROM BOTSWANA ...
Oh my. Corruption, illegal activity, lying, cheating and all around immoral behavior. Who'd have ever imagined. Wait people and money are involved makes sense now.
This is the modern definition of humanity right now, every dictionary should be updated.
This world is one big dirty business.
To achieve sustainability, each country must prohibit waste export. Countries shall retain the waste they created.
This will lead to a fast development of recycling and disposal solutions.
Like to immersenly fast development.
that's not how it works. you would create monopolies and some people will take advantage. it would hinder competition as companies from other countries will suffer.
just regulate them and make the penalties for cheating really harsh
What a surprise. All these rich corrupt people will die alongside the rest of us in the end. All these rules but wave a few quid in front of someone's nose.
THE PROBLEM IS THE SYSTEM @DW. Not individuals.
Being Romanian-born and now Swedish citizen, I am happy to see from abroad that you have made this documentary, after Recorder and ProTV (with “România, te iubesc!”), to show the ecological disaster from Romania. It is like that, and unfortunately, it doesn’t make Romania a good advertisement abroad, nor within the EU.
Keep up the excellent job as usual! 😊
So you're Romanian or Swedish?
@@mad_zo both
@N Fels No, don’t blame the Roma community, as they are also Romanians doing these ecological disasters. Roma people from our country have Romanian citizenship and they are Romanians. What you see in this reportage is a systematic problem caused by poverty, lack of education, and a corrupt system.
@@andeugensson some nonsense. but it's fine.
Incinerating are the true effective way. The Swedish are right. We must left the oil and gaz energy, carbon emitions, but we cant stop the garbage incineration. Recycling are a lie, and lies cant be tolerable no matter how sweet they are.
Make way for global car batteries now
Shame on Heidelberg Zement and all the other companies involved! All of them should be fined in a way that they won't do it again...
Once I saw the title I imeddiately thought "definititely it has romania involved". In first few seconds my theory was confirmed :D
DW documentaries are best 👏👏👏
as an italian I'm sorry our government too isn't doing enough to stop our trash from polluting other countries. Thank you so much for sharing this doc, a healthy environment is vital for all of us
I saw that Italy is doing the same with the garbage, which often arrives in Romania. It’s a whole mafia that works with the complicity of our authorities.
@@andeugensson Yea that VICE documentary was excellent.
How on earth could waste be exported? Why is this legal anywhere in the first place? You produce waste, you should deal with it. Richer countries produce an excessive amount of waste and the waste contains high amounts of toxic materials because of their standard of living. They have the ability of having waste sorted and treated because they got cash. Poor countries shouldn't have to deal with this. Ban waste exportation worldwide!!!
Its not legal, its a mafia's work.
@@harukrentz435 It is legal apparently in Germany as long as the waste does not contain toxic compounds. I am talking about waste in general, not just toxic ones.
It's easy they use shipping containers tieing the rubbish in bulk and that's how it ends up in those countries
The only was to increase the value of recyclable plastics is to place limits on the manufacturing of virgin plastics. Of course this won't happen anytime soon as the costs of producing materials and goods made of plastics would be passed down to consumers.
More investment is required to improve and increase plastic recycling. This would include education for the public to reduce contamination in their recycling practices, reducing the cost of recycling with technology, building domestic recycling facilities (facilities to collect and process domestic plastics: from the bin to clean nurdles ready to be made into new products) to end the trade and shipping of recycling, education and methods to reduce consumption (the global oil, natural gas, and plastics industries spends billions annually to fights every attempt to reduce consumption), developing new and affordable biodegradable forms of plastic without using more water and reducing footprint, and finding new way to reuse plastics which cannot be recycled for traditional consumer products (scaling current processes making roof and wall tiles, plastic bricks, pavers and others out of plastics which cannot be recycled into clean nurdles), and researching alternatives to replace single use plastics. Nearly everything we touch and buy contains plastics. We must look to the past to see how we lived without plastics. Plastics are too cheap to not use. Increasing the value and cost of plastics is the only way to reverse the damage.
Honestly rather than burning trashes couldn't they be recycled?
When education is very little, recycling is the last option.
It's costly to recycle.. Many countries can't afford to do so.
@@MariusTeodorParaschiv most of the trash came from developed countries where most people are highly educated, not only highly educated they also preach the world about environment.
@@harukrentz435 we use INCINERATORS and generate ELECTRICITY.
@@harukrentz435 no better way to say it. Thank you
This shows why recycling is so important for every country.
Eroupe can use waste recycling as employment generation for growing refugee/immigrants from africa/syria/lebya/etc
@@sainiamarjeet Why is it always people from poor countries who should do your dirty work? Why can't we find a reasonable solution and provide 3rd countries with a decent standard of employment and living?
@@vkrgfan nothing is dirty waste is wealth rest it's low skill work hence more cheaply can be done in
Developing countries instead of doing in developed countries where minimum salary r higher
Oh wow, we have lots of this landfill in my country where burning waste materials( I suppose most are from developed nations) is an ordinary sight even in broad daylight. I didn't know it's such a big of a deal for some countries. I'm from the Philippines, btw.
thank you for continuing to bring attention to this important subject!
Good job DW as always
Same in Poland, same :/
Excellent report.👍👍
Dw is aware that it has the responsibility for the environment. Dw provides awareness against pollution. Thank you, DW.
I love DW Documentaries!!! I live in Berlin- And we have a huge problem here with recycling- Building owners pay the bare minimum for recycling/ So the plastic bins stay full!!! So recyclables end up in the normal trash!!! The recycling bins sit full of Plastic-- Forever because the buildings owners prefer to save their money!!!!! It happens again and again All throughout the city!!! Why must citizens pay to recycle ♻️ is the PROBLEM!!! It should be free to pick up the recycling (paid for by the taxes ie the State)!!!!
Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts on the topic.
@@DWDocumentary Thank you for the Best Documentaries in the World!
what the ....
they dumb into Malaysia too
7:40
As long as governments tolerate planned obsolencence by manufacturers we will continue to have landfill problems. Products should simply be built to last as long as practically possible.
Very underrated comment! And we also need to force companies to allow repairs to their products.
For example *Apple* is infamous for suing small repair shops, making it as difficult as possible to repair their products and even slowing down older products when the battery degrades. It's a disgusting business practice to maximize their profits.
I like your documentaries im from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🇿🇼
Hellow,from eastern Europe
England is the lead country exporting most waste to my country Turkey
They shoul arrest the german company's that send this toxic waste abroad, as well as any other country.
Arrest company?
I'm just curious if this waste could bring millions why aren't we getting rich?. I just hope eveyone can watch this so that awareness can be spread to everyone. Pls keep our planet clean by recycling and dumping waste properly it will realy cause a lot of mony if u help make a better place.
Harsh penalties arent enough, you gotta give people opportunities so they dont see ilegally burning trash as a way to put food on the table.
This is happening to many poorer countries. I still remember the same thing happened to Malaysia. Rich countries should take care of their own shit.
1:23 Romania is Europe's trash bin for used cars!!!!
My conutry used to be a beautiful country!
Come to America there is tons of trash
It's Not as big as European Countries. Every County in the State one lives in, has its way of doing things, according to the Waste Management System. The Capital of California is Sacramento, CA. The Governor will put into Law, What is to be done throughout the Entire State. Many States here in the USA, have gotten A Lot Cleaner due to Stricter Rules. We Recycle ♻️ Green Waste, Everything to Computers, Batteries, Cardboard, and much more.
Wow! I didn't know waste was this golden
JAIL FOR LIFE ! TO THE HEAD OF THIS DIRTY BUSINESS !!!
All the european countries sent their disposal sheeet in my country ,this happens with a strong tide with high ranks people! Billions of euros entry every year in their accounts!
Shouldn't it be illegal if they're using shipping containers to bring bulks of rubbish and landing them in some ones else's land?? There must be some law somewhere.
This exact problem has been happening in Scotland. Illegal land fill in remote areas by criminal gangs. Apparently most of the criminal gangs doing this in Scotland come from England and Northern Ireland, they never shit in there own patch. What they do is they get a license somehow by creating a fake waste company or buy one over with a lisence, then they bid for waste cheaply, sometimes toxic waste with no intention of disposing with responsibility or correctly. They are hard to catch and manage to manipulate poor or desperate land owners to take waste, then if the land owner refuses they threaten them. The cost to clean up the mess they make is millions, this is what happens when everything is left to the free market. Criminals see an opportunity and take advantage, especially when they are left unchecked and the waste has no traceability of the middle man criminal. Toxic hospital waste and industrial chemicals have been found at these sites, the problem of waste disposal is the traceability not justbof source but the handler that dumped it.
This company needs more recognition.
Congratulation for this is information now
Well you'd be amazed how many types of illegal stuff just as bad as this happens in Romania to be honest.
Most of our forests as of right now are being sold to 1st hand countries and such also in a "legal" context of course and there have been people investigating and showing actual proof of illegal smuggling but you know in Romania this is usual stuff and it will continue to go on.
Canada has no problem with toxic waste. It ships it illegally to the Philippines as recycling.
Between the excellent work of the DW Documentary team and watching PBS Frontline's special on Plastic Wars, it feels like so much of "recycling" in wealthier countries is just shipping it to a poorer country and having it be their problem. Which doesn't solve anything - especially in the global fight against climate change
Environmental health benefits everyone. If the ecosystem suffers everyone suffers
Real life Sopranos
Romania and Poland poor too cheap thats why all these happen
Who are these people who consider Germany a leader in recycling? I mean outside of Germany itself?
Germany isn't doing anything magic, it's just sweeping things under the rug then patting itself on the back for doing such a great job.
Let s ask for help.
The translation is not how is supposed to be. He said that the person is from Germany, but you censorship that.
It's not just Germany, but Britain, and other developed countries as well.
And US too!
The main hero in Romania plays with fire, especially in Romania. Too big power on one hand and just regular guy on different. Sad, but reality.
There's a difference between radical climate activists, who panic and who want to ban everything, and ADEQUATE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS like this man. Respect 🔥 I'm half-Irish and half-Slavic, and I know that authorities in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Hungary, don't really care about dangerous waste and even about chemical waste... And sometimes they even burn dangerous waste from other countries on their own territory ☢☢☢
Such an important issue
Big fan from Nepal..🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰
Lot's of love from Nepal.
Waste, and how its disposed of, appears to be an insurmountable problem. There must be a way to safely convert it into electricity.
Its at times like this that I wish I had a higher intellect... or, at least, had the privilege of a better education.
elon musk knows
They've been starting to dump the wast into the ocean illegally also
We don’t deserve this 🌎
Just stop making plastic. There is no other option.
This is absolutely nothing compared to China Japan Africa or India..
Not proud to see Romania here. It saddens me.
"Waste Not', Want Not" 🤔What in the world does that even mean'? 😆😂🤣
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Please, this vídeo in spanish? 😅😊
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
unreal. there is not end to GREED in this world.
B e i n g of age and how to manage the sequence of returns in those early periods is what seems quite scary in the current market. The market is never a loser in a twenty year cycle, but the 2000s decade scenario scares me and could really disrupt my retirement. When you are no longer accumulating but withdrawing its hard to be anything but cautious.......
Trashy smugglers.
You know how they are taking it as a joke all you had to do is set up a couple cameras and you'll catch whoever's dumping the stuff but why if you get paid off of them
Please do such investigation about dumping and burning illegal toxic waste in Serbia, I believe that it's the hotspot for illigal waste in Europe.
Ok cool but 'Belgium' doesnt exist.
We should make the waste producers responsible it is too easy to export problems from rich western nations to poorer regions.
Romanian people probably know about it and being quit, what to say more.
Firstttt big fannn
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So heart breaking to see the earth being abused like this... At the beginning of the film, i could not beleive my eyes, with the damage being done. I really hope this gets sorted out soon, or there will be no earth left to enjoy. 😮💨😲😢😨
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And of course it is always the fault of the subcontracter....come on...they know what 's happening to thoses trashes. That's why it is cheap....It is a GLOBAL CRIMINAL ORGANISATION ...Romania is just the point chosen for the delivery...Pour romanians poeple!
The person who invents a mobile plasma waste to power generator will be heralded as Edison, Einstein, or at the very least, Musk.
The consumer society is pretty scattered around the globe, and the waste ends up somewhere.
5th comment
1,267,740th comment.
Seeing my sister in laws home country covered in trash is heartbreaking. We've talked a lot about the clear cutting of the forest but never realized other EU countries are dumping trash there as well.
**Being of age and how to manage the sequence of returns in those early periods is what seems quite scary in the current market. The market is never a loser in a twenty year cycle, but the 2000s decade scenario scares me and could really disrupt my retirement. When you are no longer accumulating but withdrawing its hard to be anything but cautious.
How about use military equipment (AKA DRONES) to surveil those areas like you guys surely already do in other countries? Isn't a good way to fight organized crime and corruption?
C'mon, even HBO already show how to do this in "The wire" tv series long ago🤣
All of us, from all over the world need to get together on this. We need to push our governments! Our future depends on it. People are already sick and people will continue to starve because our land will not be healthy enough to grow food
The world loves China product
Think like this, if the plastic were to being used in making fuel.. how many of this sites would it be all over the world ? Fuelprices would be made of smelted plastic - into fluid and than made too fuel. Making it need alot of plastic. Than both the goverments and even the mafia would try to collect as much plastic as possible to make fuel.. Wouldent that be a win-win for us all ? Think like this, if the large engine-makers would made a even better diesel-engine that would overstep both Euro 7 and euro8.. (not even made yet) that would like pure water or fog comming out without anything toxic left..
Better Start storing water in All your Plastics, and growing Food in them . Thanks
And people wonder why global warming is getting bad