Toxic waste landfill

September 27, 2010, Kalush city, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

In the video: landfill, different angles; trucks are removing toxic hexachlorobenzene waste; officials arrive, among those present is Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Volodymyr Sivkovych; ruins of the Potash-Magnesium Plant, signs "Protected Territory", "Passage is prohibited"; Sivkovych inspects the territory of the plant; workers line up; repackaging and removal of hexachlorobenzene is underway.

Reference: The hexachlorobenzene landfill in Kalush city (Ivano-Frankivsk region) contained over 11 thousand tons of toxic waste generated as a result of the activities of the Oriana chemical enterprise. In 2010, the authorities declared the area an ecological emergency zone and began liquidating the landfill and transporting hexachlorobenzene for disposal outside Ukraine.