Detection of illegal dumping of hazardous waste
- Tuesday - 01/09/2020 09:17
- Close page
On August 24, the Provincial Investigation Police Agency coordinated with the Environmental Police Department - EPD (PC05) - Provincial Police Department and the Provincial People's Protection Institute to jointly investigate and clarify the discovery of more than 6.4 tons of waste (suspected toxic waste) dumped into the environment in Ho Nai 3 commune (Trang Bom district).
Nearly 1,000 drums contaminated
with hazardous chemicals were discovered at the facility.
Earlier, on August 13, the Provincial Investigation Police Agency received from PC05’s report on the discovery that a scrap business owner had dumped tons of untreated waste into the environment. The PC05 reconnaissance force immediately conducted an administrative check on the households of Mr. Le Van Van and Ms. Pham Thi Ngoc Diem (living in Ho Nai 3 commune), and discovered that the vacant land area behind this household’s factory contains a lot of sludge residue from rinsing, washing of iron drums containing chemicals.
The police force determined that Mr. Van had instructed his workers that after collecting all kinds of chemical drums, they would rinse, wash, and then dump straight into the land behind the factory.
Identifying these are types of hazardous chemical containers, PC05 cooperated with the Provincial Police Investigation Agency to preside over and related unions to take samples of waste for inspection; Meanwhile, the police also collected more than 6.4 tons of waste; confiscated nearly 1 thousand drums of all kinds (the amount of scrap that Mr. Van's facility had collected earlier) and more than 4 tons of solution used for chemical cleaning to serve investigation.
Tung Duong