Action taken on construction waste
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ALL districts have been ordered to set up transit sorting places for construction waste, greenery authorities said.
Once sorted, construction garbage will be converted into building materials, for use in such items as road pavements, as well as being used for landfill. The city is setting up sites for reusing construction garbage, Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau said.
About 100 million tons of construction wastes are produced in the city every year.
The latest measures follow two illegal garbage dumping incidents in Suzhou and Nantong in Jiangsu Province that came to light in early July.
Since then Shanghai has banned the transportation of construction wastes to other cities. Five people have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of garbage at Taihu Lake. Charges include causing environmental damage and dereliction of duty.
On July 1, eight vessels from Shanghai were seized after it was alleged they had dumped garbage on an abandoned embankment at Taihu Lake Drug Rehabilitation Center, prosecutors said.
In Nantong, one person was detained for illegally transporting more than 2,000 tons of garbage from a Shanghai pier and dumping them in Haimen.
Before last July, construction waste could be moved out of Shanghai after registering with the authorities.
Other measures taken since include improving management with regard to the reporting of construction garbage sources, and strengthening the crackdown on irregularities during the transportation process.
In a separate case, five tanker drivers have been detained and their vehicles seized for illegally dumping hundreds of tons of cement into a key ecological but vulnerable area in southern Shanghai on Tuesday, urban management authorities said.
As a result, the former Wenrong Animal Farm had suffered “immeasurable devastation,” according to the authorities in Songjiang District.
The farm had recently been cleared of illegal constructions and was ready to be converted into farming land.
Most of the suspects were caught red-handed, but a driver of a sixth tanker managed to flee the scene and is still being hunted.
All six tankers were dumping the cement, and three of them had finished doing so by the time the urban management members arrived, authorities said.
The cement was dumped by a riverbank and had ruined a substantial part of the greenery.
The former animal farm, located on Xinkai Road in Xinqiao Town, was once notorious for hosting about 20 illegal factories including some heavy polluters.
An official from the Xinqiao urban management team told Shanghai Daily that the spot was not fenced so anyone was able to enter.
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