The Public Prosecution Service has launched a criminal investigation into recycling company AVI from Den Bosch. The company is suspected of having illegally dumped 7,500 tons of waste on a piece of land in the municipality of Moerdijk.
The dumping happened last November. A supervisor of the Environment Agency caught the suspects, writes Broadcasting Brabant. This concerned so-called shredder waste, which is created during the processing of composite products, such as cars, white goods and electricity cables.
A few months earlier, the province of Noord-Brabant had imposed a penalty of 150,000 euros on recycling company AVI if it did not clean up part of the shredder waste on its own site. This should have been done at a special processor and is therefore expensive. Instead, the company would have dumped the waste on a site in Moerdijk. The owner of AVI denies that.
Heavy metals
The owner of the site where the waste was dumped has reported fraud. According to Omroep Brabant, he stated that he was not aware that it was shredder waste.
The municipality of Moerdijk estimates the costs of cleaning up the waste at 1.1 million euros. Until it is clear who will pay for the costs and cleaning up can begin, the waste is covered to prevent heavy metals from entering the soil.
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