In the early morning of 19 th, the General Administration of Customs unified the command of 19 customs offices in 13 provinces including Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and carried out "blue sky" operations to crack down on "foreign litter." Among them, Huangpu Customs cracked major cases and verified 138,500 tons of waste plastics in one fell swoop Knocking down five criminal gangs smuggling solid waste, accounting for the national action to verify the total amount of foreign rubbish nearly half of the same time, the Guangzhou Customs successfully destroyed 10 criminal gangs.
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 enterprises, the latter in the process of processing and lack of necessary anti-pollution facilities, easily lead to local ecological pollution.