This is Pata Rat, the country's biggest landfill and long one of its most glaring environmental sins. For decades, pollution leached from untreated waste and garbage fires blazed, occasionally...

Pata-Rât (în maghiară Patarét) este locul pe care se află amplasată rampa de gunoi a municipiului Cluj-Napoca. Denumirea locului provine de la satul învecinat, Pata . La Pata Rât locuiesc aproximativ 1.500 de țigani , o parte dintre ei evacuați [ 1 ] de autoritățile din Cluj .

Nov 22, 2016 · Cunoscută peste hotare prin reportajele de la BBC şi Channel 5, groapa de gunoi a Clujului - Pata Rât – e locul unde trăiesc circa 1.500 de oameni, romi, români, maghiari. Istoria coloniei de la marginea oraşului, de la apariţia ei până la poveştile ...

Oct 14, 2021 · Environmental racism at work: the making of precarious living and working conditions on the Pata Rat landfill. This is the largest waste-related ghetto in Europe located in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Europe’s largest waste-related ghetto is to be found in Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s fourth biggest city.

Pata Rât is a neighborhood in Cluj-Napoca, located right next to the city’s landfill. It was born, if you can say so, about 15 years ago, when the Cluj authorities evicted the Roma people who lived in the Coastei area, moving them to an unsanitary border area of the city, where it is not possible to live not even today in decent conditions.

Sep 29, 2021 · Pata Rât is the largest landfill-based slum in all of Europe. It lies six kilometers from the city of Cluj-Napoca in Northwest Romania. Most of the roughly 1,500 people who live in Pata Rât are Roma, making it one of the largest Roma communities in Europe.

Aug 29, 2019 · Three years later, the European Commission took Romania to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for its failure to close and rehabilitate 68 illegal landfills, including Pata Rât, even though it had received support from the Regional Development Fund to replace them with a new waste disposal system. In 2018, the ECJ ruled in favour of the ...

Dec 29, 2012 · Pata Rat slum is located at the periphery of the city of Cluj Napoca, Romania, in the heart of Transylvania and covers 18 hectares. It is the home of three distinct groups of Roma people that live in two neighborhoods, ironically named “Dallas I”, “Dallas II” and a third one that lives up on the Pata Rat landfill, a total of circa 1500 ...

Mar 31, 2014 · NOUL (NEW) PATA RÂT. An area created by the municipality’s “social housing” project dedicated to the families evicted from Coastei street in December 2010. The modular houses are placed at about 800 meters from the landfill and 200 meters from a former pharmaceutical waste deposit.

Mar 31, 2019 · The towering heap of rubbish at the Pata-Rat landfill in western Romania has been condemned as an "environmental time bomb" but for many of its neighbours, this putrid mountain of refuse is a...