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Two teams of the Bucharest Environmental Guard discovered, one of the last days, within just a few hours, several outbreaks of smoke particle pollution on the lands in the border area of the Capital. Burning industrial waste to extract iron is a widespread practice in poor communities in Ilfov County, says Octavian Berceanu, the chief commissioner of the Environmental Guard. People who deal with this burn old cars, tires, cables, household appliances, office chairs, or any object that contains iron. They then recycle the metal at scrap metal centers. It's a whole waste business, which starts with illegal storage on private or city hall lands, continues with arson that generates polluting particles and ends with the sale of the iron resulting from the burning. "It's enough for there to be 10-15 such toxic fires in people's yards or in fields for a sector of Bucharest to be affected," says Octavian Berceanu. About how much the smoke particles produced by these "small polluters" affect us, where the danger lies in the case of large polluters and how the state is complicit in poisoning the air, in a new Recorder report. ------------------------ Recorder is an online publication built by a team of journalists around these principles: honest journalism, done with passion and put in public service. You can support the Recorder project with a donation here https://recorder.ro/sustine/ or here www.patreon.com/recorder More clips produced by us are on: website: https://www.recorder.ro our Facebook page / Instagram account / recorder.ro