China is "seriously dealing with" hazardous waste

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Source: Xinhua

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- China is "seriously dealing with" hazardous waste threatening the environment after several incidents of illegal dumping and transferring of abandoned heavy metals, a senior environmental official said Thursday.

Treating hazardous waste will become a priority in China's pollution prevention work over the next five years, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection Zhang Lijun said during a national teleconference.

"Efforts should be made to curb the rising amount of pollution caused by hazardous waste," said Zhang, adding that hazardous waste has "seriously threatened environmental safety and damaged people's health."

Citing a recent incident in southwestern Yunnan Province's city of Qujing in which chromium residues were illegally dumped, Zhang said it had an "extremely bad environmental impact."

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/01/c_131092172.htm

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According to the article, China is trying to make some reforms in how they deal with pollution.

[sce56]

1. Like I have allway said if you get them to follow sound enviromental & labor laws the playing field

will even out!

[Betsy Ross]

2. Turn the waste into little gewgaws and sell them to US. n/t

[madrchsod]

3. looks like they`ll be exporting dirty jobs to another country...

[FreakinDJ]

5. EXACTLY the waste will end up in Africa

[aquart]

4. Sure they are.

[Javaman]

7. my same feelings.

They make massive bank on taking in other nations e-waste and oil ships to be dismantled.

Both area's that do this are toxic nightmares.

[dogmoma56]

6. the major cause of death in china is Environmental pollution