Inspectors catch nearly 500 polluting firms
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JUST under 500 enterprises in Shanghai have been shut down or ordered to undergo renovations in the past two weeks under the supervision of an inspection team sent by the country’s central environmental watchdog.
The inspection team’s duties include ensuring the city government has been firmly applying environmental protection policies, resolving serious problems and playing a leading role in an environmental friendly development.
According to Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, 834 complaints and investigation requests had been received by the inspection team in the past two weeks. By Monday, 567 of them had been resolved.
A total of 146 enterprises had been shut down and 96 had been ordered to suspend operations.
Most of them were heavy polluting or without a license.
A further 218 companies were ordered to hold immediate renovations. More than 23 million yuan (US$3.3 million) in fines had been issued during the period.
Four factories along Minhang District’s Zhongchun Road were fined a total of 360,000 yuan for illegally discharging waste gas. Minhang District environment authority also sealed six machines owned by Shanghai Xinguanghua Plastic Company on December 2, as the machines had been discharging volatile waste gas during manufacture without protective measures.
On December 5, Hongkou District authority was required by the inspection team to look into complaints involving restaurants on Hengbang Road that had been disturbing nearby residents with noise and cooking smoke.
The district market supervision authority found three restaurants had been operating without licenses, and they were ordered to close. One of them was also fined 22,500 yuan by the environment authority for noise pollution.
Putuo District authority shut down a drinking water station and two cold storage warehouses on Guannong Road after negotiations with the owners last week as residents in nearby neighborhoods complained about noise.
The inspection team is to stay in Shanghai till December 28, and has set up a hotline of 64377118 for citizens to file complaints or provide tip-offs from 8am to 8pm.
The team mainly deals with complaints involving environment problems or ecological issues, but it will pass on requests on other matters to related government departments.
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