Only a couple of weeks after the Easter clean-up in Chisinau, streets are again full of garbage as unauthorized dumps emerge like mushrooms after rain, complains Chisinau's preventive medicine chief Iurie Panzaru. The municipal waste management division hardly copes with the workload as the amount of residential garbage grows increasingly. According to Iurie Panzaru, the banks of the Bic river, which were recently cleaned up, are becoming again a big dumpsite, where waste is being disposed of not only in bags but also in truckfuls. The same sad story is true of many locations in the city and its outskirts. “The people who live on the streets Podgoreni and 8 Martie, in Rascani district, do not have contracts for waste disposal with the Motorsanitation division and toss the garbage around. The people in the commune of Truseni take their waste to the local cemetery or throw it into the river”, Iurie Panzaru told a City Hall meeting. The fines for illegal waste disposal range from 200 to 400 lei for individuals and twice the amounts for entities, which is too insignificant to make people give up this ugly habit, says municipal police chief Silviu Musuc. “The police patrol the banks of the river Bic and the parks but we don't always manage to catch the wrongdoers”, admits Silviu Musuc. A commission will be set up soon comprising representatives of the police, the preventive medicine agency, the district offices and the ecological inspectorate to track down the folks who throw their waste in unauthorized places.