Nanjing Customs seized over 2,000 tons of smuggled plastic waste

Nanjing Customs announced that on the morning of February 7, it successfully smashed three criminal gangs for smuggling solid wastes and captured 12 major criminal suspects in the early hours of February 7 to verify more than 2,000 tons of wastes from the solid wastes smuggled.

It is understood that during the day's operation, the Nanjing Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau dispatched 104 anti-smuggling officers into 18 action teams to carry out simultaneous investigation in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong and Zhejiang etc. Preliminary investigations conducted by Nanjing Customs found that from 2016 to the present, three In order to seek illegal profits, the smuggling criminal gangs smuggled the waste plastics into China with the permission of borrowing others, and the illegal plastic bags were sold to non-environmental-friendly enterprises after being smuggled into the country, while the latter were sold, used and sold illegally The lack of necessary pollution prevention and control facilities in the process can easily cause serious pollution to the local ecological environment.

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