Especially around so-called LD-Staal slags live about the risks to the environment and health. The cabinet has temporarily limited the use of steel snails.
At the request of the House of Representatives, Aartsen has made a timeline on the developments around steel snails in the past. “With today’s knowledge, it is clear that things have not gone well in the past,” he writes.
The State Secretary is working on obligations to report the use of residual products such as steel snails. Where necessary, he also wants to oblige permits or even introduce a ban.
Tata still has the opportunity to respond to the intention to an order subject to the ILT penalty. The inspection therefore says nothing about the amount of the possible penalty.
Use of steel snails
Last May came through research from Nieuwsuur and Nieuws & Co upwards that the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has years of the environmental risks around the reuse of steel snails at Tatel Steel concealed.
It is now clear that it is on Many places sitting in the province of steel snails. Steel snails have not only been found at Tata itself, also in Playgrounds and residential areas found steel snails.