A spontaneous landfill with hazardous waste was set up near the Shatskyi lakes

A spontaneous landfill with hazardous waste was set up near the Shatskyi lakes
Katerina Belousova

Medicines belong to hazardous waste and require special disposal

In Volyn, in a forest near the road at the entrance to the village of Shatsk, a spontaneous dump with medical drugs and household waste, including plastic bottles, dishes and other waste, was discovered.

This is reported by VolynUA.

The publication published a photo of a spontaneous landfill, on which you can see powerful drugs. Some of the drugs have not expired yet.

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It is worth noting that medicines belong to hazardous waste. They have an extremely negative impact on the environment and require special disposal. Such garbage cannot even be thrown into a general container.

As you know, Shatsk is surrounded by 24 lakes. Such a complex is considered one one of the largest in Europe. In addition, the Shatskyi National Nature Park is located on this territory.

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Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the Kharkiv region, in the Krasnograd district, an illegal medical waste dump, in particular with tests for the COVID-19 coronavirus, was removed. Seven bags with this waste were discovered near the village of Dubovi Hryady thanks to the appeal of people.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, the director of a meat processing plant from the Volodymyr district will be tried in Volyn, who organized the dumping of waste from animal carcasses in a forest strip near the village of Ozyutychi. This caused significant soil pollution.

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