Breaking into a large-scale "fake" oil recycling site in Binh Thuan

SGGPO 12/01/2023 11:50

A large-scale waste oil recycling facility into diesel in Binh Thuan province has "magically" transformed thousands of liters of waste oil into diesel for sale to individuals and organizations.

Based on information from local people, on December 1, SGGP reporters visited an illegal facility recycling used oil into diesel in Song Phan commune, Ham Tan district (Binh Thuan province). Inside the recycling facility, hundreds of drums, plastic cans, and plastic tanks containing dirty oil were lined up waiting to be sold.

This recycling facility is located between a dragon fruit garden and an acacia forest, sparsely populated, about 3km from National Highway 55B (Ham Tan district).

Large-scale illegal oil recycling facility, covering thousands of square meters. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

To deceive the authorities, the owner of the facility used corrugated iron to surround the entire area of ​​thousands of square meters to build a factory, install machinery, and perform the steps of "transforming" waste oil into diesel.

To fool the authorities, the owner of this facility used corrugated iron to surround the entire land area of ​​thousands of square meters to build the factory. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

Inside the recycling furnace, many houses with corrugated iron roofs have been built, hundreds of plastic barrels and cans containing oil are lying around.

The machinery system serving the oil recycling process, including: 1 furnace to separate water residue in waste oil, 2 furnaces to distill waste oil, 2 cooling tanks, 2 tanks to store oil after condensation, 1 cooling water tank... is installed systematically. Behind this facility, 2 large holes are dug, containing many bags of black solid waste, the surface of the holes is filled with soil and covered with corrugated iron.

Well-built recycling plant

Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Thang, Deputy Head of Ham Tan District Police (Binh Thuan Province) said that from the work of grasping the situation, recently, the unit coordinated with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Song Phan Commune People's Committee to organize an inspection of production and business activities at the above lubricant recycling facility.

Hundreds of plastic cans lying around. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

Accordingly, the authorities discovered that this used oil recycling facility was owned by Mr. Nguyen Trong Huan (born in 1980, residing in La Gi town, Binh Thuan province). At the facility, there were still 16 barrels (200 liters/barrel) of untreated used oil, 20 barrels (200 liters/barrel) of treated used oil residue, and 9 plastic barrels (1,000 liters/barrel) of treated finished oil.

Plastic tank containing used oil. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

Regarding the production process, Mr. Huan purchased waste oil from facilities in Dak Lak province, stored in iron drums. Then, workers poured it into a heating furnace, added additives to filter out the residue, heated it to evaporate through a condensing furnace, used cooling water to condense it into finished diesel oil, poured it into 1,000-liter plastic barrels. A quantity of non-vaporized heavy oil was put into 200-liter iron drums, the residue was poured into bags and buried right at the facility. The purpose of recycling finished diesel oil is to resell it to individuals and organizations in need.

Dozens of iron drums containing untreated waste oil. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

The scale of recycling waste oil into diesel is huge. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN

Regarding land and environmental procedures, the owner of the facility has not yet provided relevant documents. Considering that the waste oil recycling activities at the facility owned by Mr. Nguyen Trong Huan have signs of violating the law, the authorities have requested this person to stop all activities and business; at the same time, they are consolidating relevant documents to handle according to the provisions of the law.

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/dot-nhap-diem-tai-che-dau-nhot-dom-quy-mo-lon-tai-binh-thuan-post716481.html