PHOTO The “ultra-modern” equipment with which Minister Diana Buzoianu wants to bring the “21st century to the control activity of the Environmental Guard”

The Minister of the Environment, Diana Buzoianu, announced on Monday that the National Environmental Guard (GNM) will use an x-ray scanner, purchased with 2 million euros from PNRR, to detect trucks entering Romania with illegal waste.

The minister stated that the scanner has already been tested and will be able to be placed in border areas”.

“Stop the illegal import of waste! Trucks entering the country with illegal waste will be able to be stopped starting this week, scanned quickly and efficiently by a mobile team of the National Environmental Guard that will use an x-ray scanner,” said Diana Buzoianu, on Monday, in a post on Facebook.

She noted that the respective scanner “will not be enough to test all the trucks entering the country, but it is a huge step in the fight against the garbage mafia – an ultra-modern equipment that cost about 2 million euros from the PNRR”.

“In short: we are bringing the 21st century into the control activity of the Environmental Guard. Today the Environmental Guard has means, has legislation and additional control personnel and will be able to more effectively stop illegal waste that enters the country every year at the border, to avoid their abandonment or incineration”, the minister continued.

Diana Buzoianu says that “in the last month alone, 750 actions of the Environmental Guard were carried out in which the modern equipment purchased through PNRR was used”.

“In order for this to be achieved, as soon as I arrived at the ministry, I adopted the necessary rules in the legislation. What seemed unbelievable until yesterday, I want to become a normality in the modern approach to inspection activity. We effectively combat illegal imports of waste and environmental crime!”, concluded the Minister of the Environment, Diana Buzoianu.