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Greenpeace: 36 Stratagems of Factory Pollution Discharge

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Friends,

When the “36 Stratagems”—the ancient Chinese treasure of strategy—is now used by factories for discharging wastewater and polluting rivers, what does it look like? We have created a comic version of the “36 Stratagems of Factory Pollution Discharge,” allowing you to see through the tricks of illegal factory discharge at a glance.

View the “36 Stratagems of Pollution Discharge” comic series >>>>

Since 2002, Greenpeace has been concerned about industrial water pollution and has launched investigations (Video: Directly witnessing the pollution scene). During these years of investigation, we have found that many factories use various “clever tactics” to conceal discharge outlets and hide discharge behaviors. For example, some factories love to “make a feint to the east while attacking in the west,” deliberately setting up two discharge outlets: one is public, discharging non-toxic and harmless wastewater to deceive the public and cope with inspections; the other is hidden, where toxic and hazardous substances are discharged silently into the rivers.

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Enter the detailed explanation of “36 Stratagems of Factory Pollution Discharge” >>

On May 1st of last year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s “Measures for the Disclosure of Environmental Information (Trial)” came into effect. However, over the past year, none of the 18 well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises listed in the Fortune Global 500 or the Top 100 Listed Companies in China have disclosed pollutant discharge information as required! On October 13, Greenpeace released a report titled “The Silent Majority,” which reviewed these companies in detail.

Download Report: The Silent Majority—Investigation into the Disclosure of Corporate Pollutant Information

Faced with the tricks of factories and polluted water sources, what can we do? We can defend our health and environment through witnessing, reporting, applying for environmental information, and using the law, and share these methods with the friends around you:

http://202.152.178.208/event/36tricks/36tricks.html

One in every four Chinese people lacks access to safe water!

China is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, and severe pollution has exacerbated this scarcity. China’s rivers and lakes have become sewers for factories to dump toxic wastewater. Water pollution accidents occur frequently, and currently, one-third of China’s rivers are seriously polluted.

Illegal discharge behaviors by factories outside of supervision may have already released toxic and hazardous substances into China’s rivers, causing permanent damage to the environment. Staff members investigating factory discharge outlets reveal the tricks of illegal factory discharge to you.

Factories discharge industrial sewage into groundwater wells, thinking they can “advance secretly by an unknown path,” but the lives of villagers have been seriously affected. The water they draw from the wells is heavily polluted, turning brown, with a large amount of foam, and emitting a foul smell...

Greenpeace’s work is to locate factory discharge outlets based on the only available clues and collect evidence of factory pollution. Field investigation is definitely not the most difficult or dangerous part of the Greenpeace water pollution prevention project, but it is definitely the one with the most technical expertise. If you flexibly learn and master the following technical guide, finding factory discharge pipes is not difficult.

Of course, facing factories that try every means to prevent their discharge pipes from being found, failure is not shameful. Due to the economic crisis and high costs, using large-scale tools would increase unnecessary carbon emissions.

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