Construction garbage truckers told to clean up act
A NUMBER of construction garbage transport companies have been fined, and banned from dump sites, in a crackdown on overloading and spillage.
The city’s traffic police recorded more than 129,000 traffic violations and accidents involving construction garbage transport vehicles as of August this year. This includes 215 cases of serious overloading and 3,911 cases of garbage leaking and scattering.
Shanghai Qinshun Construction Project Co Ltd, Shanghai An’yuan Infrastructure Construction Garbage Transport Co Ltd, and Shanghai Tianyi Construction and Decoration Co Ltd had the largest number of violations, 212, 176 and 163, according to traffic police.
The Pudong New Area, Baoshan, Jiading, Yangpu and Qingpu districts were the top 5 areas where serious overloading and spillage occurred.
Between January and August, there were 20 traffic accidents in the city involving construction garbage transport vehicles which resulted in 20 deaths. Nineteen companies were involved. “Despite intensive efforts, violations and traffic accidents involving construction garbage transport vehicles are still serious in the city,” said Zou Hua, chief of the waste management department of the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau.
The city’s urban management and law enforcement authorities penalized 1,127 construction garbage transport companies for violations as of August.
More than 16 percent of the violations were for illegal dumping and unlicensed transportation.
Shanghai Xinhai Construction Machinery Co Ltd and Shanghai Yaowen Cleaning Service Co Ltd were punished 27 times.
Dump sites near Nanhui Dongtan and Pudong International Airport are designed for big construction projects. Transport companies whose vehicles use the sites caught overloaded three times will be banned.
Several companies including the Shanghai Weibiao Construction Project Co Ltd, Shanghai Chengzheng Construction Co Ltd and Shanghai Yuwan Co Ltd have been banned, according to the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau.