In the early hours of December 19, the General Administration of Customs conducted a total command of 19 customs offices and conducted the fourth round of special operations against blue sky in solid waste smuggling in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hebei, Liaoning, Tianjin and Jiangsu. As of 10 am, 47 criminal gangs of smuggled solid waste were successfully destroyed and 127 suspects were arrested. All the major target persons were present, and 323,000 tons of solid wastes, including waste plastic and waste slag, were verified.
General Administration of Customs anti-smuggling command center
Initial investigations revealed that the above-mentioned smuggling gangs smuggled the scrap plastic into China by smuggling the waste plastic involved in the smuggling of the involved cases, in order to seek illegal profits through the smuggling of the smuggled slag and rubber waste into the country or through leasing, borrowing and purchasing of other people's licenses. Waste slag and waste rubber belong to smelting residues and wastes that are prohibited by the state from being imported and do not meet the national environmental protection control standards and are harmful to environmental safety and human health. Environmental protection qualification of the enterprise, the latter in the process of using the lack of necessary pollution prevention facilities, easy to cause pollution of the local ecology.
Shanghai Customs seized plastic waste in the enterprises involved in the project in Jiading District, Shanghai
Shantou Customs in Meizhou, Jieyang and other places to seize waste plastics, scrap metal more than 600 tons
Haikou Customs seized at the site of Yangpu dock 500 tons of rubber waste
Nanjing Customs seized 600 tons of smuggled plastic waste on the scene of a factory involved in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province
In order to safeguard national ecological environment and people's health, this year, the General Administration of Customs has organized the national anti-smuggling department of the whole country to carry out the special operation "Blue Sky", carried out rolling strikes continuously and severely cracked down the smuggling of foreign rubbish. This action is the fourth of this year So far, this year, the Customs cracked 298 cases of smuggling solid waste into criminal cases and verified all types of 866,800 tons of solid waste involved and arrested 421 suspects.
Guangzhou Customs seized more than 300 tons of scrap metal suspected of being smuggled in a freight yard in Foshan
Xiamen Customs seized 15 tons of used notebook remnants in a hardware factory in Foshan
Dalian Customs at the suspect's home seized evidence
The Customs said in July this year, the State Council General Office issued an implementation plan on banning the entry of 'foreign litter' into the country to promote the reform of the import management system for solid waste, and the import of solid waste will be further strictly managed. This is a major reform decision made by the State Council and is China's ecological civilization construction important measures. Customs unswervingly crack down on 'foreign trash' smuggling, and resolutely all kinds of 'foreign garbage' in the country outside.