Environmental convention aims to get people involvedEarlier this year, people living in the area where a new municipal solid waste project was being built in Riga began to panic. A rumor had spread that the site was going to be used to dispose of toxic waste from around the world and local residents were not happy."Of course it was a lie, but it was difficult to explain to the population that it was not true," recalls Raimonds Vejoris, director of the Regional Development and Environmental Board for Riga. "People complained all the time. Even today, we still have problems," said Vejoris, wh...
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