Five companies, seven people suspected of illegal waste disposal in Kaohsiung

By Esme Yeh / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Five companies and seven people suspected of illegal dumping have been indicted, with more than 1,700m3 of business waste found at illegal disposal sites in Kaohsiung, the Environmental Management Administration said yesterday.The agency identified a case of illegal cross-regional waste transportation and disposal in cooperation with the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors’ Office, the National Police Agency’s Seventh Special Police Corps and the Investigation Bureau’s Kaohsiung Office.The prosecutors’ office filed an indictment last month, the agency said. An illegal waste transfer station set up on agricultural land in Kaohsiung is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of authorities In February last year, the Seventh Special