Caserta, uncontrolled storage of dangerous special waste: the Forestry Carabinieri seize the area

Caserta, uncontrolled storage of dangerous special waste: the Forestry Carabinieri seize the area.

Military members belonging to Caserta Forest Carabinieri Station, following a report received on the public utility number "1515", they went to an agricultural land located in the countryside of the municipality of Cancello and Arnone (CE), with access from Provincial Road N. 333, where they ascertained the presence of a large pile of dangerous and non-hazardous special waste placed directly on the ground. ARPAC technicians from the Provincial Department of Caserta were on site and proceeded to characterize the aforementioned waste as follows:
– agrochemical waste containing dangerous substances with EER code 020108*;
– special waste consisting of packaging in mixed non-hazardous materials with code EER 150106.

The judicial police investigations made it possible to trace the perpetrator of the illicit conduct, as well as the means used to transport the aforementioned waste, i.e. a tractor equipped with a trolley. The aforementioned soldiers, having recognized that the situation involved the crime of illicit management of dangerous and non-hazardous special waste, proceeded with the preventive seizure of the area and the large pile of the aforementioned waste composed of containers of different capacities (disused plastic cans) where they previously existed contains liquid chemicals, composed of fungicides, pesticides and liquid fertilizers, used in agriculture. The person responsible was handed over to the Judicial Authority in a state of freedom. This activity is among those implemented for the purpose of deterring the phenomenon of waste abandonment and burning and to concretely combat the harmful consequences of the phenomenon.