Since 2021, 37,000 tonnes of PFAS-containing hazardous waste were illegally imported from Slovenia, Italy and Germany and disposed of in Gospić, Croatia.

Omissions

• The 37,000-tonne figure is presented by the MEP as established fact, but the source that reports it (DW) attributes it to local environmental activists who 'dispute the number of waste tons' — i.e. it is a contested, activist estimate rather than an official or court-established figure.
• Euobserver reports a different, higher figure ('Some 45,000 tonnes of hazardous plastic and medical waste lies uncollected and polluting groundwater in Croatia'), indicating that published totals for the Gospić/illegal-dumping waste vary by metric and source.
• No located source independently confirms that the waste was 'PFAS-containing' nor that it was 'illegally imported from Slovenia, Italy and Germany'; these specific attributions could not be verified with the sources found.
• Publication dates of the located articles could not be retrieved; the Gospić waste scandal was reported in 2025, after the 'since 2021' starting point of the claim.

Sources

• SecondaryDeutsche Welle (DW)Local environmental activists dispute the number of waste tons and say 37,000 tons had been illegally dumped in Gospic alone. Prosecutors also ...
• SecondaryEUobserverMore than a year after thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste were discovered at an illegal dumping site in Gospić in Croatia, the clean-up ... Some 45000 tonnes of hazardous plastic and medical waste lies uncollected and polluting groundwater in Croatia more than a year after it was ...
• SecondaryCHEM TrustThe civic initiative 'Gospic is Our Home' organised the event and demanded the urgent clean-up of illegally dumped waste buried near the town of ... (concerns over PFAS pollution)