Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has dismantled more than 100 illegal furnaces for melting batteries in Sirjani Town, West District.
According to the details, Deputy Director Sepa District West Munir Abbasi said that on public complaints, a major operation was conducted against illegal furnaces in Sarjani town, in these furnaces, batteries were being melted down in an unconventional and illegal way and lead was being extracted from them.
He said that the illegal business of melting batteries was not only spreading environmental pollution but also causing various diseases in the surrounding areas.
According to Kamran Khan, deputy director of the lab, people were suffering from eye diseases due to this disgusting trap, and there were also complaints of people suffering from lung and brain diseases, on which an operation was conducted last night in Mazkoura area on the instructions of the top officials of Mohalla Environment. went.
He said that around one hundred furnaces were dismantled where batteries were being melted by burning fire in different drums.