A Hong Kong-
based company finally got
out of an unsavoury situation when the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) gave it permission to dump 43 million
cartons of soured soy milk
and fruit juices. The company, Vitasoy International
Holdings Ltd, could not
despatch these from its warehouses in early January after
consumers found that a few
soy-milk products had
soured. The company and
the EPD have been toying
with various options like
burning the paper-packed
products in incinerators,
burying them in landfills, or
processing them in waste-
water treatment plants, but
all of them seemed impossible because of the enormous
volume of liquid at hand.
The 43 million cartons contain nearly 12.7 million litres
of liquid. The company can
now exercise all the three
options within permissible
limits. It might take the company until late April or early
May to dispose off all the
cartons.
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