9 people have been charged for dumping toxic waste to the Yangtze River in China
Date: 09:35, 18-09-2017.
Almaty. September 18. Silkroadnews – 9 people have been charged for dumping 35 thousand tonnes of toxic waste to the Yangtze River in China, Star Tribune reported.
“Chinese authorities have charged nine people from a waste treatment company with illegally dumping 35,000 tons of toxic waste, some of which contaminated a section of the Yangtze River near Shanghai,” the report said.
According to the report, from August to December of last year, the company’s employees gathered garbage in the county of Haiyan, near Shanghai, and then dumped it in the river or buried in undue sites. The authorities have stopped illegal actions after they found two boats dumping waste near the mouth of the Yangtze River.
