The Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, sealed a facility, Shri-Balaji Industry Limited, engaging in the recycling of waste tyres to produce pyrolysis oil, carbon black and steel wire as by-products
The state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resource, Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, who announced this in Ibadan, the state capital, explained that the action was in the government’s efforts at ensuring conformity and adherence by companies, industrial firms, and corporate bodies, to acceptable worldwide and state environmental laws.
Mogbonjubola declared that Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration would not in any way compromise standards, nor tolerate violators of environmental health laws of the state.
He said the facility, Shri-Balaji Industry Limited, located at Olopomeji, on Ife road, Ibadan, in the Egbeda Local Government Area of the state, had been discovered to have grossly embarked on unhealthy practices, which contravened the extant environmental regulations of the state since 2016.
The commissioner stressed further that it was discovered that the pyrolysis process had led to unhealthy emissions, with flora sighted within and outside of the facility, and stained with carbon black, which consequently is hazardous to human health during several routine monitoring to the company by the officials of the ministry.
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