EPA: Individuals can not recycle hazardous waste without authorization

The electric car is scrapped, inside the old battery can still make a profit? This can be hazardous waste and can not be recycled without authorization. Recently, five people in Cangnan were detained for illegally recovering and disposing of waste machine oil and waste lead-acid batteries.

On April 13, the Cangnan Environmental Protection Bureau and the Public Security Bureau jointly implemented the law and seized two old lead-acid batteries in Lianyou Village, Longgang Town. According to the scene of law enforcement personnel, these two points of the acquisition of waste lead-acid batteries piled at will, a small part of the waste water washed into the ground through rainwater, no rain, no leakage measures.

The Environmental Protection department temporarily detained four vehicles of waste lead-acid batteries on the scene, totaling 10960 kilograms. Before being investigated, Huang Mou has sold about 17 tons of used lead-acid batteries.

Linshu, deputy director of the municipal environmental protection Bureau, told reporters that the waste batteries would have been sent to the unit with a dangerous waste business license to collect, shipped to a qualified unit for safe disposal.

It is reported that waste oil and waste lead-acid batteries are hazardous waste. According to the provisions of the new "Environmental Protection Law", illegally engaged in the collection, storage, utilization and disposal of 3 tons of hazardous waste, suspected of pollution of the environment.

Last year, there were many Red River incidents in Cangnan, and the culprit pointed to the plastic recycling point in the county. The plastic bucket recovered by the workshop contained red dye, which was washed directly in the river and caused the river to turn red overnight. On the evening of April 7, Zhejiang Satellite TV's "Focus Today" column broadcast "Cangnan Illegal Plastic Recycling Points Gathering Severe Pollution of the Village Environment", exposing the weak links in the recycling and processing industries of used goods. In April this year, Cangnan County carried out a special rectification action for the recycling of used goods, and a total of 41 recycling sites for used goods were demolished.

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