Garbage removal underway at illegal waste site

A waste dump in the town of Litvinov may be chosen as a final destination for tons of refuse dumped illegally in the Czech Republic from Germany. The site has been proposed by the Celio company, which received 1.9 million crowns in funding - the equivalent of 84,000 US dollars - from the Finance Ministry to clean up half of the garbage. First clean-up operations began on Thursday. So far workers for the company have removed 120 tons of textiles and more than a thousand tons of burnt waste that the German province of Saxony-Anhalt will not cover. The German province, however, has pledged to remove some 750 tons from the illegal waste site in the north Bohemian town of Libceves by next week.