Recently, Dongxing customs anti-smuggling department seized 1 "foreign litter" case suspected of being smuggled into the territory in the Dongxing district and seized "foreign litter" of scrap plastic pellets, plastic chips, plastic glass and other materials suspected of being smuggled into the country. Ton, and seized 2 vehicles involved in the case and captured 3 suspects, which is the first case of "foreign rubbish smuggling" seized by Dongxing Customs since the operation of "National Gate Sword 2018".
'Foreign litter' refers to solid waste that does not meet the national environmental protection standards and is harmful to environmental safety and human health.From December 31, 2017 onward, China will comprehensively strengthen the management of imports of solid waste, and treat waste plastics, waste textiles Raw materials and other 24 types of solid waste a total ban on imports, while the Dongxing Customs Anti-smuggling Branch seized plastic particles of waste, such as plastic pieces of broken into one of the categories of a total ban on imports.
According to reports, on February 5, Dongxing customs anti-smuggling branch to report to the masses, saying there are 2 loaded with smuggled plastic trucks in the city of Dongxing ready to barge cargoes .After the preliminary evaluation of the clues, the branch sent anti-smuggling police out of the police investigation.
Anti-smuggling police found a suspicious truck when inspecting a section of the Dongxing city police car and was confirmed by the on-site investigation that the truck was a vehicle for transporting foreign rubbish, and then the anti-smuggling police seized another truck that was in transit. Preliminary inspection, the batch of 'foreign trash' with two layers of woven bags, including the second layer of woven bags with foreign logo and woven bags 'foreign trash' for waste plastic granules, powder, glass, weighing 29.74 Ton The current case is under further investigation.
Customs departments said that foreign particles smuggled into the country from foreign plastic particles, such as debris will generally flow into the domestic small workshop, in these 'ocean garbage' is re-processed in the process, will produce harmful to the environment and human gases, and after processing The remaining scraps will also cause damage to the environment in the process of decomposition. It is recommended that members of the public not buy or touch these harmful foreign rubbish.