The Mexican authorities are investigating after this hospital waste with biological risk warnings which included placentas was found abandoned and burnt amid COVID-19. Members of the Federal Prosecution for Environmental Protection were told about the presence of hospital waste which had been abandoned and burnt in an area known as…
Bucharest has sent back hundreds of tonnes of rubbish to the UK which they said were being falsely imported as toys and second-hand goods to get them into Romania to be illegally burned. The Environment Minister of Romania Costel Alexe has announced that the rubbish had been sent back to…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@DevalPolicia The Colombian authorities have seized 528 kilogrammes of cocaine that was hidden among human faeces and organic waste in the back of a lorry. The lorry transporting the 528 kilogrammes (1,164 lbs) of cocaine was stopped on the main route…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report These are the pictures shared by a grateful woman who accidentally threw her golden rings in the rubbish before bin men found them among four tonnes of refuse. Ms Lee, from the county of Yilan in West Taiwan, revealed the rings were mistakenly…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This is the moment a hapless street seller and her cart are covered in human waste and sent flying through the air after an underground sewer explodes beneath her feet. The freak accident happened in…
