Dong Thap: Handling businesses that discharge waste causing environmental pollution

On May 29, the Department of Investigation Police on Corruption, Economic Crimes, Smuggling, and Environmental Crimes - Dong Thap Provincial Police said that they are consolidating the case file to handle Dia Long Agricultural Service Trading Company Limited (Tan Thanh Commune, Thanh Binh District) for the act of "Dumping ordinary industrial solid waste in violation of the law, causing environmental pollution".

Báo Sài Gòn Giải phóng•29/05/2025

Police inspect and make a record at the scene of the discharge. Photo: CACC

The company, whose director is Mr. Bui Quang An (born in 1984), registered to produce organic substrate from mango seeds and peels on an area of 5,020.8 square meters. However, an actual inspection showed that the enterprise used about 28,000 square meters, of which more than 19,700 square meters was rice land that had not been converted to another purpose.

The interdisciplinary inspection team discovered that the company was discharging leachate from the process of fermenting and drying mango seed shells directly into the environment without treatment. The water was dark brown in color, had a foul odor, and flowed naturally into the pond and surrounding area because there was no bottom lining and no wastewater collection and treatment system.

At the time of inspection, the company was storing about 5,000 tons of common solid waste (mango peels and seeds), of which more than 250 tons were weighed at the scene. The company director admitted to collecting mango peels and seeds at a price of 450 VND/kg and manually processing them.