Mounds Of Trash Stranded On Gibraltar Because Of Brexit – Murcia Today

Date Published: 08/03/2022

This arrangement lasted successfully for decades, with Gibraltar sending 30,000 tons of rubbish to the Los Barrios landfill every year. But since the beginning of 2022 piles of trash have had to be stored on the Rock because the UKs exit from the European Union has meant the waste could not be brought across the border.

The Government of Gibraltar has been forced to use crushing machinery to compact the waste in order to make more space and to try and prevent it falling in the sea and causing an environmental disaster.

However, this solution has been provisional, as has the authorisation of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, necessary for the transfer of the 6,000 tons of MSW, which was already beginning to be packed last week.

Now, though, the Government of Spain has given the green light to permits for the transport and disposal of garbage in the Southern Europe Environmental Complex once again, and Gibraltar will have to make up for the backlog and clear over two months worth of trash.

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