Chinese drug firm uses water tanker to spray liquid waste on streets
Company in Jiangsu province shut down and fined after tanker marked like a city cleaning truck was caught spraying waste late at night, according to TV report
A pharmaceutical company in eastern China has been shut down after it used a water truck to spray more than 3,000 tonnes of waste water on to the streets, according to a Chinese media report.
The truck was painted like a city cleaning services vehicle and the firm in Rudong county in Jiangsu province used the method to get rid of liquid waste for over a year, Jiangsu TV reported.
The company, Bairui Biomedical Technology, has also been fined 800,000 yuan (US$124,000), the report said.
Police and the local authorities caught the company spraying the highly-concentrated waste last week.
People had reported a strong smell after the truck had been spraying.
