t**x 发帖数: 20965 | 1 UPDATE April 3, 2018: Chinese authorities have seized 111,000 metric tons of
"smuggled solid waste" and "smashed" 25 smuggling rings so far in 2018, as
reported by the South China Morning Post.
At a recent meeting, the newly formed Ecology and Environment Ministry (
formerly the Ministry of Environmental Protection) said it was considering
the country's fight against "foreign waste" a symbol and symbolic measure in
"the creation of an ecological civilization in China."
Around 64,700 metric tons of that smuggled waste includes slag from mines,
and authorities have arrested 52 people as of April 2, the paper said,
citing state media. Chinese officials arrested 259 people for smuggling
waste in 2017. |
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