A drug company in China was fined and forced to shut down after spraying over 3,000 tons of highly-concentrated liquid waste on the streets last week.
Bairui Biomedical Technology, located in Jiangsu Province, used a truck guised as a cleaning services vehicle in disposing the yellow green-colored waste it collected for more than a year.
The truck, which carried a “watering” sign, was seen around 11 p.m. on Jan. 10, according to The Paper.
The strong odor of the waste prompted locals to report the situation to authorities. It was found that the pharmaceutical firm had been getting rid of such waste the same way since 2016.
As a result, Bairui was fined 800,000 yuan ($124,000) and forced to cease operations.
The South China Morning Postquoted an official as saying, “The people responsible for this have been passed on to the police and are now in detention.”
This is reportedly not the first time the company was investigated for similar offenses.
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