Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries has accumulated behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia. 9News
This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive floating waste dump crammed with plastic bottles, rusty barrels, used tyres, household appliances, driftwood and other garbage picked up by the river from its tributaries.
“We had a lot of rainfall and torrential floods in recent days and a huge inflow of water from Montenegro which is now, fortunately, subsiding,” said Dejan Furtula of the environmental group Eko Centar VisegradAerial view of waste floating in the Drina river. Removing the garbage takes up to six months, on average. It ends up at the municipal landfill in Visegrad, which Furtula said “does not even have sufficient capacity to handle municipal waste.”
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