Guangzhou suspended the use of "garbage fat"

Is there any harm to the vegetables from waste fertilizer? According to the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, samples have been taken and tested, and the results are announced on the 28th at the earliest. The bureau said that it has stopped the listing of vegetables in Jinshan Village and suspended the use of “garbage fertilizers”. At the same time, it issued an emergency notice requesting the city to check the relevant circumstances.

The use of mixed garbage to grow vegetables in vegetable fields alongside Jinshan Road in Panyu District has been shocked by netizens’ disclosure and exposure by the media, especially residents of Panyu District (see the A09 version of the newspaper yesterday.) Rubbish turned out to grow vegetables").

Are there any heavy metals exceeding the standard for the vegetables grown from these wastes? Yesterday, the pile of rubbish piled up in Dagang Village of Hualong Town was cleared by relevant departments. In addition, the villagers in Jinshan Village also stated that after 6 pm the day before yesterday evening, reporters interviewed in the vegetable fields had gone and people who had come to a government department had taken soil and vegetables in the fields to go back.

According to the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, they have coordinated the relevant departments to carry out sampling tests on the soil and vegetable products in the field vegetable fields. It is expected that the test results will be drawn on December 28, and the results will be announced in due course.

The Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture announced yesterday that before the test results are available, the market for vegetables in Jinshan Village will be suspended until the test results come out and then processed in accordance with the relevant regulations; the towns and cities that have not been harmlessly treated or do not meet the relevant national standards will be blocked immediately. Domestic garbage will continue to enter the vegetable plots; urban household waste that has been piled up on the vegetable plots and has not been harmlessly disposed of will be immediately put out of use; together with the relevant departments, the sources of these municipal solid wastes will be identified as soon as possible.

According to the Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, Guangzhou has a permanent vegetable planting area of ​​540,000 mu, and has established 15 vegetable industrialized production bases, 30 vegetable specialized villages, and 149 one hundred acres of vegetable farms. The average daily vegetable output is more than 9,000 tons. The vegetables supplied by the market mainly come from the above-mentioned vegetable production bases, vegetable specialty villages and vegetable farms, and the quality of vegetables is safe and stable.

The Panyu District government stated that after preliminary investigation, vegetable farmers used fertilizers from the composting plant of Guangzhou Shunxing Flower Co., Ltd., Lingbian Village, Shijie Town. Pile up nearly 30 tons of fertilizer on site and use a forklift to do the work. The staff said that the screened material came from the Beijiao Town landfill in Shunde District, which is about 40 tons per day. After being piled, the screen was sold to nearby flower farms at a price of 50 yuan per tractor.

However, the Shunde City Administration Department stated that they had learned of the incident because of a reporter’s call. They have started investigations and the press conference was held as soon as possible this morning to inform the survey results.