Qilu.com Lightning News, April 17 On April 15, under the on-site supervision of Huangdao Customs, which belongs to Qingdao Customs, more than 1,900 tons of "iron concentrate" solid waste illegally entered the country were loaded and returned out of the country. This is the largest batch of solid waste returned by Qingdao Customs this year.
The batch of solid waste was imported from Iran by a company in Guangdong, with a total of 70 containers and 1923.9 tons, and the declared product was named "iron concentrate". After the on-site inspection and sampling of Huangdao Customs officers sent to the laboratory for testing, it was confirmed that the sulfur and lead content of the goods seriously exceeded the standard. According to the staff of Huangdao Customs, the goods are actually by-products produced by the process of hydrometallurgy, non-ferrous metal extraction and purification, etc., and belong to the solid waste prohibited by the state.
It is forbidden to import solid waste, once it illegally enters the country, it will cause serious pollution to the ecological environment. Huangdao Customs has built a three-dimensional prevention and control network of "source control, port prevention, domestic investigation, and follow-up combat", and continues to increase the risk research, judgment, investigation, and return of sensitive key commodities, so as to strictly prevent "foreign garbage" from entering the country.
Since the beginning of this year, Huangdao Customs has seized a total of 1,970 tons of solid waste prohibited by the state, and a total of 2,612 tons of solid waste prohibited from import by the state have been returned. In the next step, Huangdao Customs will continue to improve the accuracy of prevention and control, continue to strengthen the supervision of solid waste, and help fight the battle of blue sky, clear water and pure land.
Flash News reporter Xin Peng and correspondent Li Xinran reported from Qingdao