Ministry of Environment agents stopped a freight container full of plastic bottles at the border and forced the truck to return to Haiti. The freight truck (Freightliner L215431) did not have permission to export the waste materials to the Dominican Republic. The truck was detained at the Customs Agency in Independencia province. The shipment would be in violation to Environment Law 64-00 that regulates the transport of chemical substances and other materials that could put at risk the health and conservation of natural resources.
As reported in El Dia, the bottles were to be taken to a recycling plant in the city of Santiago.
23 May 2018
