Shaoxing Textile Sewage Caused Qian Tang River Pollution "Cancer Village" Villagers Complain Incessantly

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< p > the sewage of Qian Tang river forms huge whirlpool. The black and foamed industrial waste water and tidal water are very different in color. They swirl around the surrounding area, and the black pollution belt stretches for several kilometers.

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< p style= "text-align: center > > in the village near the industrial park, the river has been stained with black water and foul smell, passing the villagers through the nose.

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< p > Zhejiang Shaoxing occupies 30% of the country's "a target=" _blank "href=" http://www.91se91.com/ > textile < /a > printing and dyeing capacity. It is known as the "city built on cloth". However, the black and black sewage flowing out of those densely packed printing and dyeing industrial parks is gradually eroding the lives and lives of the local residents.

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< p > recently, Greenpeace investigators of the international environmental protection organization entered the textile city of Shaoxing and Xiaoshan. They spent a year searching for water pollution, and released a video called "dirty laundry disaster", which recorded the "black vortex" along the Qian Tang river.

According to the test, these sewage contain a variety of carcinogens, and plasticizer which can lead to precocious puberty and male sexual function decline.

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< p > China is the world's largest exporter of textiles. Only Shaoxing, Zhejiang, occupies 30% of the textile and dyeing capacity in China. It is called "a city built on cloth".

The most important textile and dyeing industrial park in Shaoxing is located on the North Bank of the Qian Tang river. The Binhai Industrial Park is the largest industrial park. Its northwest side is adjacent to Linjiang Industrial Park, Hangzhou Xiaoshan district.

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< p > in a 15 minute documentary called "clothes pollution disaster", these industrial parks, which originally concentrated management and highlighted the advantages of energy conservation, turned into a heavily polluted area.

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< p > at the outlet of the centralized sewage treatment plant in two industrial parks, Greenpeace investigators filmed such a scene: the tide rising in the Qian Tang river overflowed the beach, and the thick sewer pipes were covered by mud and stones, extending from all directions to the beach.

There is a huge swirling vortex at the moment, and the difference between the black and foamed industrial waste water and tidal water is very obvious. It swiftly spreads to the surrounding area, and the black pollution belt stretches for several kilometers.

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Li Yifang, director of Greenpeace project, told an interview with the the Bund pictorial that on the satellite map of Google Earth, we can see that there is a huge black vortex on the Bank of the Qian Tang river. According to their field investigation, the vortex comes from the sewage treatment plant near Xiaoshan industrial park near the river.

From the 4 km southeast of the treatment plant, the red sewage from the sewage treatment plant of the Shaoxing Binhai Industrial Park is like a terrible red fountain.

The local villagers described this as saying, "today is red, tomorrow is green, and the day after tomorrow is red again.

Scoop it up, put it away for a while, and turn black again. "

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< p > < < a > href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp > > Shaoxing > /a > Binhai Industrial Park. The sewage treatment plant is called Shaoxing water treatment development Co. Ltd. the design capacity is 1 million 100 thousand tons / day. It is one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the national design day. The treatment capacity of Linjiang sewage treatment plant in Xiaoshan industrial park reaches 1 million 100 thousand tons / day.

"It is estimated that tens of tons of toxic water containing toxic and harmful substances will flow into the Qian Tang river every day."

Li Fang said.

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In P May 2012, green peace workers collected samples of sewage from the "black vortex" and "red fountain" and sent them to a research laboratory in Exeter University, England for analysis.

The test found that the sewage contains aromatic amines, nitrobenzene, two chloroacetamide and other carcinogens, as well as a plasticizer (DBP) and a perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that can cause premature sexual maturity and male sexual dysfunction.

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< p > a netizen who has seen the video exclaimed: "the industrial park has become a heavily polluted area." do you still dare to eat seafood in Zhoushan? "{page_break} < /p >

< p > < strong > "cancer high incidence village" < /strong > /p >

< p > although no official statistics are available, Wei Dongying of the village of Wu Li village in Xiaoshan has been recording the number of deaths due to cancer in the village.

Wei Dongying originally worked in the fishing industry. Ten years ago, she found that the number of dead fish in the river increased, and the aquatic products had a strange smell. So she began to collect evidence of local polluting enterprises.

According to her records, more than 70 people died in cancer within 5 years in the village of Wu Li, and ten years later, the situation became worse and worse. The youngest cancer died and the patient was only 25 years old.

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< p > villagers can not drink polluted river water and well water.

Finally, under the villagers' struggle, the government used water tankers two times a month to supply water to the village, but it still could not satisfy the villagers' normal water demand.

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< p > > the villagers of Sanjiang village in Shaoxing called for help on the Internet. Sanjiang village is called Shaoxing cancer village. At present, it is already surrounded by all kinds of faces. It has East Asia's first a href= "http://cailiao.sjfzxm.com/Matertial/show/default.aspx" > chemical fiber < /a > factory, South high speed highway, West landfill and incineration plant, and four large printing and dyeing factories in the north.

In addition to the pollution caused by industrial parks' sewage disposal to the surrounding villages, some accidents also make the villagers complain incessantly.

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< p > in May 8th of last year, a pipeline burst in a printing and dyeing plant in Binhai Industrial Park. A three hundred or four hundred metre long river running through the whole village in Shaoxing new village was instantly dyed into a red blood River, which lasted for two days and retreated.

"Put your feet in the river and wash them. After you go home, you send one thing on your feet."

A villager who did not want to show up in the village said, "I don't want to pay for my vegetables at home."

Nowadays, villagers in the village have to buy vegetables from Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

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< p > public environmental research center has also been paying attention to the pollution problems of textile cities in recent years, and they focus on the enterprises themselves.

"There are many loopholes in the emission control of enterprises in the industrial parks, and even if they find pollution, the cost to enterprises is very low, so they can not form deterrence."

Wang Jingjing, deputy director of the public environment research center, told our reporter.

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Last September, on September, Wang Jingjing found two textile factories which provided fabrics for the famous British brand Marsha. They were Qingmao textile printing and dyeing Co., Ltd., located in an industrial park in Shaoxing, and Qingfeng dyeing and Printing Co., Ltd. located in Linjiang Industrial Park, Xiaoshan.

In the process of field visits, she found that the two companies were repeatedly complained of pollution by residents, but there was no obvious improvement.

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< p > Qingfeng company and the nearby Tang tou village are separated by a river.

Tang Tau village villagers have been crying incessantly on the "Qing Mao" company, and "smelly smell every day". "When it tastes heavy, many children will have nosebleeds and dizziness."

Qingfeng company, which is located on Qingfeng Road, the water flowing out of the rainwater pipe on the rainy day is as black as ink. It has been moved for more than 4 years by the residents of the Tianchen international community separated by Qingfeng. The lung cancer has been detected in the first few months. He said he often smelts "sour" smell, and it was very strong every night. Now he did not dare to open the window, and he also bought an air purifier at home.

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In the face of Greenpeace videos and reports, Cai Jianfeng, deputy general manager of Shaoxing water treatment development Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the centralized sewage treatment in Binhai Industrial Park, responded in an interview that the chemicals alleged by Greenpeace were not included in the daily monitoring scope of the sewage treatment plant, nor in the existing national testing standards. P

"Greenpeace is a test and analysis based on international standards, while developed countries can not get the standard of developing countries. China should be more relaxed about this indicator."

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< p > Greenpeace Li Fang told reporters that China has included plasticizers in the list of dangerous chemicals, but it has not been included in the daily detection range.

Ma Jun, the director of the public environment research center, suggested that he could draw lessons from foreign mechanisms, use sewage treatment facilities on-line monitoring equipment, publish sewage discharge data, achieve on-line one hour report, and use information disclosure public supervision to curb water pollution of enterprises and sewage treatment plants.

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< p > it is reported that in March 1st this year, China's Ministry of environmental protection's "registration of dangerous chemicals environmental management (Trial Implementation)" will be formally implemented.

This is China's first regulation on the production and discharge of existing chemicals with environmental and health hazards.

The regulations stipulate that all enterprises producing and using toxic and harmful substances with environmental and health hazards are required to register and register in the environmental protection department, and disclose information about the release and pfer of related chemicals to the public.

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< p > "we are pleased to see the Chinese government's" measures "in the near future. However, compared with the" giant "in textile industry, the imperfect government management system is still" baby ".

Li Fang commented.

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< p > reporter found that the registration system of pollutant release and pfer in Japan was introduced from Europe and the United States in 2001. The system requires the government to register and disclose information on the discharge and pfer of 462 kinds of toxic and harmful substances (I).

The results showed that between 2001 and 2008, the emissions and pfer of I toxic and hazardous substances were reduced by 24.5%.

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< p > however, emissions of chemicals (II) which did not require public information were not significantly reduced.

The United States is the first country to ask for information disclosure of toxic chemical emissions.

In 1984, after the discovery of a serious chemical accident at the United carbon chemical plant in India, Bhopal, the national environmental protection agency of the United States proposed the "toxic chemicals Inventory (TRI)" mechanism.

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< p > at present, the list of TRI has included more than 650 toxic chemicals discharged and pferred from more than 20 thousand factories.

In addition to the annual release of toxic chemical emissions data, the national environmental protection agency also processed the information to help the public better understand environmental issues. From 1989 to 2002, the TRI report saved more than 13800 babies.

Suppose that the value of a life is US $1 million 800 thousand (the conservative estimate of general environmental protection agency of the United States), the health gain created by TRI is about US $25 billion.

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