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Government commissioner confirms hazardous waste removed from Budapest depot
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Budapest, January 6 (MTI) – The government had all the hazardous waste removed from a depot in Budapest’s 9th district, the government commissioner for Pest County said on Wednesday after visiting the site.
A total of 2,493 tonnes of hazardous waste has been removed from the depot in Illatos Road, of which 1,870 tonnes has been destroyed and the remaining will be destroyed during the summer, he told a press conference.
The environmental cleanup of the depot is costing 1.66 billion forints (EUR 5.3m) net, Tarnai added.
The removal of the hazardous waste from Illatos Road has resolved a problem that originally started as many as 140 years ago and “for long decades, everybody knew what the situation was” at the depot but nobody was willing to act on it, he said. The first barrels of hazardous waste were removed from the depot on April 28, 2015, he added.
The waste is being destroyed in Gyor, Dorog and Tiszaujvaros and at a site abroad, he said.