Morocco refuses to be Albania’s dumping ground

Morocco refused to receive 102 containers of waste deemed toxic from the port of Dürres, Albania. Other countries followed in his footsteps.

It all starts at the beginning of summer 2024. The Sokolaj company buys between 800 and 1,000 tonnes of waste from a company in Elbasan – Kurum international, and immediately resells it to its Croatian subsidiary, GS Minerals, Albanian media report, specifying that the two companies presented an invoice for the purchase of “iron oxide” whose export is authorized. 102 containers leave Dürres for the large Italian port of Trieste, where they are loaded onto two Maersk company cargo ships, the Campton and the Candor. They set sail again and sailed along the African coast. But an NGO specializing in tracking toxic waste, the Basel Action network (BAN), warns Maersk that the containers do not simply contain iron oxide, but toxic waste, in this case arc furnace dust. electrical waste (EAFD), classified in the category of toxic waste by most legislations.