Tanneries face action for not treating effluents: Environmental pollution

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Tanneries face action for not treating effluents: Environmental pollution [1]

Orders were issued on Tuesday for the initiation of legal action against some 25 tanneries which are not treating their effluents before discharge.

The director-general of the Sindh Environmental Protection Authority (Sepa), Dr Mohammed Ali Shaikh, issued these directives in accordance with the provisions of the Pakistan Environmental Act 1997, during a visit to the Combined Effluent Treatment Plant which operates in the Korangi Industrial Area under the aegis of the Pakistan Tanners' Association (PTA).

Publication Date:

27/08/2008

Source: Dawn (Pakistan) [2]

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Pollution [3], Leather Industry [4], Solid Waste [5], Pakistan [6], Sindh [7]

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