Independent councilor Daniel Radeta has requested complete documentation from relevant institutions regarding the origin and composition of waste that has been ending up at Zadar's landfill for years, drawing parallels with the Gospić affair.
Independent city councilor Daniel Radeta issued a sharp public statement on Tuesday, demanding urgent answers about more than 150,000 tons of waste that has ended up at the Diklo landfill since 2022. Drawing a direct parallel with recent discoveries in Gospić, where waste was incorrectly classified as non-hazardous, Radeta poses the key question: "Is Zadar the new Gospić?"
In his statement to the media, Radeta explains in detail why the comparison with Gospić is justified. "In Gospić, waste was recorded as 19 12 12, non-hazardous waste. Subsequent analyses determined that some of the waste had hazardous properties and belonged to category 19 12 11*," he stated.
He then pointed to the situation in Zadar: "And at Diklo? In 2024 alone, 54,544 tons of waste were disposed of under code 19 12 12." It is precisely this classification of waste as non-hazardous, without, as he claims, any analyses being conducted, that is at the center of his criticism.
The councilor emphasizes that he has been unsuccessfully trying to obtain information from the municipal company Čistoća Zadar for months. "Since March, I have been asking Čistoća Zadar where this waste came from. There has been no response," Radeta said. He added that he has simultaneously publicly released footage of foreign companies' trucks bringing in waste, which is then transferred to dump trucks and ends up at the closed landfill in Diklo.
To determine the true state of affairs, Radeta has officially requested complete documentation from Čistoća Zadar, the Ministry, and the State Inspectorate. The request includes ONTO records, data on the origin of the waste, and any laboratory analyses that may have been conducted.
"The question is simple: Who, when, and based on which analyses determined that more than 150,000 tons of waste that has been ending up at Diklo since 2022 did not contain hazardous substances?" Radeta asks in his statement.
In conclusion, he states that after the Gospić case, it is no longer sufficient to rely solely on paper documentation. "If analyses were conducted, let them be published, immediately! If not, then someone must explain who and how allowed more than 150,000 tons of waste to end up at Diklo for years without any real verification of its composition," Radeta's statement reads.
