These companies, involved in industries ranging from electronic products manufacturing to licensed toxic waste collection as well as printing and packaging, were fined a total of $253,700 for their offences, said PUB in a news release. Eighteen of the companies penalised were repeat offenders, including bakery and food manufacturer BreadTalk.
Repeat offendersIn the case of BreadTalk, the company was fined $16,300 for discharging regulated chemicals exceeding allowable limits into the public sewer on 2 June 2016 and 20 April 2017. The company had also previously been convicted on six similar charges, for which it was fined $19,000, said PUB.
NSL Oilchem Logistics had discharged a “grossly” excessive amount of zinc, which exceeded the allowable limit by about 68 times, according to PUB. In the case of KMS Industrial, there were high concentrations of prohibited VOCs such as toulene, ethylbenzene and xylene found in the discharge.