Jacek Ozdoba made the remark at a news conference in Warsaw on Monday, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The deputy climate and environment minister outlined the results of the government’s system for the electronic supervision of transport (SENT).
Computerised monitoring of sensitive goods
The SENT system offers computerised monitoring of the transport of sensitive goods, such as alcohol, dried tobacco or fuel and, from February last year, solvents and diluents, as well as waste, according to officials.
SENT covers transport and trade in sensitive goods taking place within Poland, starting in Poland and ending abroad, starting and ending abroad, as well as starting abroad and ending in Poland, officials said.
‘Poland is no longer the waste-yard of Europe’
Ozdoba told reporters: “The SENT system has enabled us to really tighten Polish borders when it comes to the transborder transport of waste.”
He added the government was seeking to combat an illegal influx of waste into the country.
He also said that "there has been a gigantic number of inspections regarding waste transport over the past year," and as a result, “Poland is no longer the waste-yard of Europe.”
Ozdoba said that the SENT system recorded more than 130,000 transports of waste in 2022, the PAP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, officials carried out over 17,000 inspections, uncovering irregularities in 840 cases, he added.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, money.pl