A first class environmental crime scandal has taken place in Filippiada by Preveza, western Greece, after dozens of tons of rotten animal products were found to have been buried in an illegal landfill.
The products, rotten animals, fish and sea food, were waste from a frozen food products of a company whose plant burned a few days ago on the island of Corfu, state broadcaster ERT reported.
In its exclusive report, ERT showed footage of the illegal burial of dozens of tons of animal remains in a state of advanced decomposition, which were transported from the burned Corfu plant to Filippiada, Preveza, in order to be cremated in a special incineration plant, but ended up buried a stone’s throw from the Louros River in the municipality of Ziros, Preveza.
The footage showed excavators digging trenches and burying huge quantities of rotten food from the burned frozen food factory in Corfu. The company was given the option to transport the burned remains to an incineration company in Filippiada, however, it seems that the illegal burial of the waste on a plot next to the incineration plant, which is only 20 meters from the Louros River, was preferred.
This was information that the police officers of the Environmental Department of the Thessaloniki Security Service had after cooperation with the Environmental Inspectorate of Northern Greece, who arrived on site and saw this environmental crime unfolding:
200 tons of food waste along with rubble next to the company that, according to information in the case file, undertook the incineration of the waste.
ERT reported also of a horrible stench in the area and the arrest of two men.
WTH is wrong with people? This could have caused a big biological pollution in that river, not to mention the spread of infectious diseases. The only proper way to get rid of animal waste is incineration or proper burial in sanitized sites.