From different hospitals in many places out of the dirty infusion bags, urine bags, mixed with medical gloves, cotton swabs and even syringes and needles, were processed into recycled plastic raw materials, from Hunan to Hebei and other places ......6 June 5, Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court notified a typical case: the court found that more than 140 tons of medical waste and medical waste in the first instance. Garbage in Miluo City, Hunan Province, Gu Pei Town, a hidden farm yard, by criminals Qiu Mou and others crushed, sold to its "downline" in Langfang, Hebei and other places. The case **** from Hunan, Hubei, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places of 12 people for "pollution of the environment" was sentenced.
Let the police on the case is disturbed that when these suspects are caught, there are many environmental protection agencies that belong to the "hazardous waste" and "toxic substances" of the medical waste or waste was purchased by their downline, processing into unrecognizable Plastic granules - blue propylene, and even some may have been turned into plastic products flowing to the market.
In the backyard of villager Qiu Mou's house in Yangliu Village, Gupei Town, Miluo City, Hunan Province, several gloved "staff" are sorting and crushing heaps of medical waste. When this "black workshop" was found by the police and environmental protection law enforcement officers, the yard is piled up with pungent odor of medical waste, from some hospitals out of the infusion bag oozing liquid in the ground flowing at random, some infusion bag on the needles and syringes that have not had time to pull out, syringes are still residual on the dried blood! ......
"These people aren't even wearing masks." Xu Jie, director of the Miluo Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau's emergency response center, described the scene he saw as "shocking." "The wastewater from cleaning medical waste in this black workshop is discharged directly out through rainwater ditches, polluting the environment, and the pungent odor has persisted for a long time, causing dissatisfaction among the public."
In early April 2016, Miluo Environmental Protection Bureau received a report that Qiu Mou and several people in the village were illegally processing medical waste. They immediately sent law enforcement officers to the scene and seized more than 50 tons of medical waste and medical garbage in one fell swoop.
"Black workshop" someone confessed to law enforcement officials, they sporadic acquisition of medical waste from the waste market, after the initial manual sorting, cleaning, crushing and other processes and then sold to the lower line of profit, these things are mainly used to make raw materials for plastic products.
Miluo City Public Security Bureau security brigade police Ren Shangfu told the "Outlook" news weekly reporter, the criminal gang involved in the case of a clear division of labor and cooperation, the crime chain across Hunan, Hubei, Hebei and other places.
The police investigation found that the criminal Qiu Mou and "partner" Huo Mou in the case of not obtaining any relevant qualifications, in the Qiu Mou is located in the town of Gupei, Yang Liu village housing backyard workshop, and employing Fu Mou and other people processing. The workshop processed medical waste and waste, basically without sterilization. A case officer said, this type of workshop in order to earn more money, even infectious medical waste such as disposable syringes are used to crush and sold as waste plastics. Some workshop workers explained that they processed raw materials and even had to do dialysis with urine bags, some of which still contain yellow urine from patients. They processed "products" purchase price of about 2,000 yuan per ton, sorting, cleaning, crushing, in Langfang, Hebei, the plastic market can be sold to nearly 5,000 yuan per ton. Because of the considerable profit margin, the participants are willing to take risks.
Interviewed law enforcement officials said, in Miluo this "black workshop" downstream, Hebei Langfang people such as Gao Mou is a "big customer". Trade between these people, a single less than a few tons, ten tons, more than dozens of tons. Dangerous plastic medical waste and garbage from Hubei, Hunan into Hebei, was processed into granular "blue C material" - blue PP recycled material. At this point, it is difficult for law enforcement officials to find the final destination of these substances. They may become plastic pipe raw materials, may also become in the culture, entertainment, food, medical, materials, home decoration and other areas of wide application of "high permeability materials", which makes law enforcement officers y worried.
The reporter of "Outlook" news weekly learned that, in such cases, most of the medical wastes seized by law enforcement departments are often infusion bags, infusion bottles and other medical wastes, and a small portion of them must be incinerated and destroyed as medical wastes.