Poland's Main Environmental Protection Inspectorate (GIOŚ) announced the move on Thursday, the bankier.pl website reported.
It came after the customs office in the western Polish city of Gorzów in April told environmental inspectors about an illegal shipment of waste from a German wind farm.
The shipping company failed to provide adequate information about the waste in the documents, officials said.
The German company said it was transporting “non-dangerous” waste when in fact the shipment contained a mixture of plastics-based waste, fibreglass, and pieces of wood and metal, GIOŚ said in a statement.
Moreover, the transport company failed to notify Polish and German authorities about the planned transborder shipment of refuse, and did not obtain the necessary permits, making the shipment illegal, according to officials.
GIOŚ said it "informed the relevant German public agency" about the illegal transport and asked for the waste "to be removed from Polish territory."
On August 16, the refuse was collected by Germany's SBB Sonderabfallgesellschaft Brandenburg/Berlin mbH agency, and transported back to Germany, GIOŚ said.
The 7.2 tonnes of refuse came from the dismantling of a wind turbine that had been part of a wind farm in Germany, bankier.pl reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: bankier.pl, TVP Info, gov.pl