Presentation of analysis of pollution of Celje in year 2006
1. Celje is the most polluted city with cadmium (dr. Žibert): 1100 % above the critical
value. The pollution is spread 4 km around the Zinc Industry east – west direction.
2. Celje is the most polluted city in Slovenia with ozone
3. Besides Trbovlje and Zagorje, Celje is the most polluted city with powder particles
PM 10 – the concentration is still rising.
4. The annual value of NO2 is over exceeded for 50 % and daily max. Concentration can
be 450 % exceeded. Again the concentration is rising.
The results of analysis of Cinkarna (Zinc industry)
Analysis of gypsum 2001
Lead
Cadmium
Copper
Chromium
Nickel
Zinc
Mercury
Molybdenum
Arsenic
Cobalt
64,2
4,0
29,1
383
23,6
27,6
Analysis 2004
In mg/kg s.s.
to 200
to 10
to 200
to 500
to 100
to 500
to 10
to 100
to 100
to 100
Boarder values
for inert waste
500
12
500
500
500
1500
10
500
200
250
In Celje 6000 hectares of soil is polluted with all poisonous elements, out of it 2200 hectares
of arable soil.
Every year in approximately 300.000 tones of dump at Za Travnik dump deposit are carried:
1,2
to
3
tones of cadmium
To
3
tones of mercury
To
30
tones of arsenic
To
30
tones of molybdenum
To
30
tones of cobalt
19
to
60
tones of lead
7
to
60
tones of copper
115 to
150 tones of chromium
8,4
to
150 tones of zinc
Every year to river Hudinja are deposited with 11 m3 of current wastes a tone of TiO2 with the
production of 56.000 tones /per year and approx. 300-500 kilos of cadmium (year 2003) and
approx. 300 tones /per year of so called »black wastes« from TiO2 production …