Songjiang court jails polluters
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EMPLOYEES of a company in Songjiang District have been jailed for illegally disposing industrial waste into open-air greenery.
The case is among the first batch of environment-related sentences this year after Shanghai’s environment authority expressed its determination to strengthen law enforcement in 2017.
The principal defendant, surnamed Yang, was the general manager and legal representative of an electro-mechanical technology company in Songjiang’s Chedun Town. Yang in turn pointed to the involvement of a man named Zhang, the director of the company’s manufacturing plant.
According to Songjiang District People’s Court, Zhang allowed two other employees to dispose cutting fluid, a poisonous chemical waste, into greeneries beside the factory. The district’s environment authority said the fluid had caused severe pollution.
Yang was given a jail term of 15 months as well as a 10,000 yuan (US$1,450) fine. Zhang was sentenced to one year and received an 8,000 yuan fine. The other two employees each received a six-month suspended sentence and a 3,000 yuan fine. The company was fined 100,000 yuan.
In another case in Songjiang, two people surnamed Wang and Song were each sentenced to a year in jail for illegally disposing nearly 4 tons of paint beside a highway. According to the court, Wang and Song, were paid to dispose of 80 buckets of insulation paint by a Xinqiao Town company.
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