Industry fined Tk 31 lakh
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a dyeing industry Tk 31 lakh for releasing untreated chemical and wastes into the river Turag in Pagar area of Tongi in Gazipur.
The DoE also directed to shut the industry, Everway Yarn Dyeing Ltd.
A team of DoE, led by its director Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, conducted the drive, said a press release.
The team found that the industry has released 9.8 lakh litres untreated chemical mixed waste recently as its Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) was out of order. It also did not find liquid oxygen in the liquid wastes of the factory and the chemical oxygen demand was 250-mg per litre.
The industry has been running without the clearance from the DoE since 2009.
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