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Because of lack of oversight, Romania’s seven cement factories can burn anything, including legally forbidden substances such as medical waste – at the expense of ordinary citizens forced to breathe and live amid the toxic fumes emanating from their smokestacks.

OCCRP traces this corrupt practice across Europe in “Cement’s Dirty Business.”

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https://www.occrp.org/en/documentaries/cements-dirty-business/