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Large amounts of battery waste are stored at a site in Iklad, where photographs show shocking conditions.

After a truck transporting batteries caught fire in Salgótarján, it was discovered that the site receiving the batteries had no fire safety equipment.

Household waste has been illegally collected in a housing estate in Budapest, despite that only the Budapest Public Utilities is entitled for it.

A company in Bátonyterénye that processes discarded batteries repeatedly violates disaster prevention and occupational safety regulations.

In 2019, Átlátszó investigated the landfill in Királyszentistván which caught fire three times that year, covering the area around Balatonfűzfő with thick black smoke, soot and ash.

“Too high a rubbish hill would stick out from the landscape of the Great Plain” – one of the council...