Dyeing factory fined
Department of Environment fined a dyeing factory Tk 12 lakh for discharging untreated chemical waste into the Turag river in Gazipur yesterday.
A DoE team, led by its director (monitoring and enforcement), Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, in a drive found that the effluent treatment plant of the factory kept shut causing a huge quantity of untreated toxic waste was discharging into the river.
DoE also found that the factory dumped 36,000 cubic metres of untreated chemical waste into the river so far as the factory everyday dyes 5 metric tonnes of knit fabrics.
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