【Haichuan Chemical Salary News】Guizhou Weng’an yellow phosphorus plant found to have non-compliant exhaust emissions, reported by CCTV
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(CCTV Finance’s “First Time”) Many people are aware of this. Yellow phosphorus is a toxic chemical, and its production and processing are subject to strict requirements. On January 1, 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the \"Access Requirements for the Yellow Phosphorus Industry,\" which stipulates explicitly that the exhaust gases from phosphorus furnaces must not be released directly into the atmosphere for combustion. However, a decade has passed, and recently, while covering stories with the South China Inspection Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in regions such as Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan, journalists found that the waste gases generated by some yellow phosphorus production enterprises were still being released directly into the air to burn, causing severe pollution. This kind of flame is ignited by the exhaust gases emitted during the production of yellow phosphorus in the electric furnaces used in yellow phosphorus plants; some in the industry call it a torch, while others refer to it as a \"sky-lighting device\". This is a video filmed on April 7 by villagers from Xianqiao Village, Weng’an County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, showing a white gas resembling fog surrounding the fields and farmhouses in the village.
I was on a business trip here over a decade ago; there were smokestacks everywhere, thick plumes of smoke, with yellow and white clouds intermingling, and air pollution in the surrounding area was very severe.
The process has not been improved either yet
The air there is choking. Just saw a post in my social circle about a pollution issue caused by a chemical plant in Taiwan; what did the villagers do? Seal the factory gate with concrete!
For enterprises that fail to meet environmental standards, we need the determination and courage to shut them down. Of course, this has a specific focus: it depends on whether the technology in question is outdated and should be phased out, as well as whether the environmental protection facilities meet **basic standards. So many years have passed; there should be some progress by now
Today I came across a great phrase: \"blocking out the sun,\" which truly captures the feeling of being there in person at that time.