Beijing, 2 sep (EFE).-China is facing a serious situation of pollution by heavy metals once he recorded several accidents of these contaminants, minerals illegal downloading today informed the press china.
Will “treat these harmful waste be the priority of the work of pollution prevention in the next five years,” said the Deputy Minister of environmental protection, Zhang Lijun, quoted today by the newspaper “China Daily”.
Harmful waste have increased in recent years in China jeopardizing seriously the health and safety environmental.
In recent months and as health authorities practise population analysis, has detected an increasing number of contamination by blood lead, in many cases on minors, which can leave sequelae of life on the health of these children.
In addition, contamination by heavy metals, such as mercury, lead or cadmium, affects much of little arable land available China, more than 10 percent of its territory.
Zhang cited the recent example of the discovery of illegal waste of chromium in the southwestern province of Yunnan, with “extremely serious environmental consequences”.
In order to limit such discharges, the central Government will apply a series of measures which include the examination of new industrial and real estate projects involving the discharge of waste pollutants.
In the event of violations of these rules, such as the storage of waste in an irregular manner that may pollute the soil or water, impose fines on companies pollutants.
China is one of the countries most contaminated and pollutants in the world, due to rapid industrialization in which the current second economic power had ignored until recent years measures for the protection of human health and the environment. EFE
