{"id":56258,"date":"2019-10-13T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56258"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:41:45","slug":"sepa-seals-illegal-factories-near-mewa-shah-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-illegal-factories-near-mewa-shah-graveyard.html","title":{"rendered":"SEPA seals illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has sealed several illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard on account of causing environment pollution, a news source reported. The factories were set up to burn tires, wires, and electronic scrap material to extract aluminum wires and iron material.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-ordered-to-deal-with-pollution-causing-industrial-units.html\">SEPA ordered to deal with pollution-causing industrial units<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The operation was launched on orders issued by Sind Chief Minister\u2019s Adviser on Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab. According SEPA Deputy Director Waris Ali Gabool, tires and scrap material was burnt in these factories causing several health hazards to the residents of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/nine-types-of-projects-exempted-from-sepa-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nine types of projects exempted from SEPA approval<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wires and iron material extracted by burning rubber and plastic in these factories was later polished and supplied in the market to be used in the preparation of other household items. The SEPA deputy director also revealed that Mewa Shah is home to huge illegal warehouses of these factories.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-briefed-about-cleanliness-drive-launched-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM briefed about cleanliness drive launched in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another operation, the SEPA launched a crackdown at several shops and markets in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and collected samples of shopping bags to inspect their material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has sealed several illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard on account of causing environment pollution, a news source reported. The factories were set up to burn tires, wires, and electronic scrap material to extract aluminum wires and iron material. Read:\u00a0SEPA ordered to deal with pollution-causing industrial units The operation was launched on orders issued by Sind Chief Minister\u2019s Adviser on Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab. According SEPA Deputy Director Waris Ali Gabool, tires and scrap material was burnt in these factories causing several health hazards to the residents of the area. Read:\u00a0Nine types of projects exempted from SEPA approval The wires and iron material extracted by burning rubber and plastic in these factories was later polished and supplied in the market to be used in the preparation of other household items. The SEPA deputy director also revealed that Mewa Shah is home to huge illegal warehouses of these factories. Read:\u00a0PM briefed about cleanliness drive launched in Karachi In another operation, the SEPA launched a crackdown at several shops and markets in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and collected samples of shopping bags to inspect their material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13414],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-sepa-seals-illegal-factories-near-mewa-shah-graveyard"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEPA seals illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has sealed several illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard on account of causing environment\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-illegal-factories-near-mewa-shah-graveyard.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEPA seals illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has sealed several illegal factories near Mewa Shah Graveyard on account of causing environment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sepa-seals-illegal-factories-near-mewa-shah-graveyard.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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