Catanzaro: Carpentry and industrial factory seized in the Catanzaro area

Two illegal special waste landfills were also sealed

A carpentry shop and an industrial factory operating in the sector of painting sheet metal and metal components and two illegal landfills with a surface area of ​​over 30 thousand square meters were seized by the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Lamezia Terme as part of the activities of monitoring regarding the prevention and detection of environmental crimes and offences. The investigations, carried out with the help of the technical staff of the Environmental Protection Agency of the Calabria Region, made it possible to ascertain that these activities were carried out without any authorization and in unsuitable environments as they lacked extraction and filtration systems of fumes and dust produced during manufacturing processes. Furthermore, during checks in some areas adjacent to the buildings, an enormous quantity of special and dangerous waste was found deposited in an uncontrolled manner on the ground. The waste, mixed together and without any suitable protection, was exposed to atmospheric agents, with the consequence that the leachate produced by the inevitable run-off of the same is absorbed directly by the ground contaminating the environmental matrices, soil and water, and constituting a potential danger to public health. At the end of the checks, the illicit waste management by the administrators and managers of the controlled companies was ascertained.