On the early morning of February 3, Shenzhen Customs conducted a large-scale search and smuggling operation and smashed a smuggling network suspected of smuggling inbound plastic waste by more than 50,000 tons. On the same day, with the assistance of the Customs in Guangzhou, Huangpu and Shantou, anti-smuggling officers 200 In other areas, such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Huizhou, arrests and arrests were simultaneously conducted and 12 smuggling suspects were arrested.
It is reported that the case involved in the case of environmental assessment of qualified processing enterprises, mostly for small and medium-sized workshops. Into the processing plants, crude plants everywhere are piled up, such as small bags of waste plastic pile, the air pungent taste. For some simple forging machines and shaping mold, are the original artificial close operation.
Customs anti-smuggling personnel said that these do not have the processing and production of waste plastics EIA qualification of small factories, not only the production of plastic bags, plastic boxes and other plastic products, product quality can not be guaranteed, the wastewater generated in the production process enterprises untreated Random discharge, direct pollution of soil, groundwater and public water sources; high-temperature dissolution of untreated exhaust gas, containing a large number of harmful gases, free air directly pollute the air, causing serious damage to the surrounding ecology and environment.
At present, the investigation and found out that the suspects involved in the case directly in the United States, Japan and other places ordering plastic waste, and then by the Lanhuo and customs groups to use other enterprises waste plastic import permits, imports of waste plastics from multiple ports in Guangdong, and then shipped To Huizhou, Shantou, Foshan and other places do not have the processing and production of waste plastics EIA qualification of enterprises, illegal processing and sales .At present, the criminal gang has been completely destroyed.