A farmer surnamed Hong in Changhua asked someone to buy soil for backfilling, but he did not have a proof of purchase of the soil. After investigation, the backfill was industrial waste, so he was sentenced to prison.

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[Reporter Chen Guanbei/Changhua Report] An old farmer surnamed Hong in Changhua County owns a piece of land in Dacheng Township, but he has no tillage and finds someone to backfill the earthwork. He also argues that he bought good soil for backfilling at 3,000 yuan per car, and bought about 60 cars in total. Hong Nan lived only on the old farmer's annuity, and was unable to pay tens of thousands of yuan for land purchases. In the end, the lie was exposed, and the Environmental Protection Bureau found that the backfill was all industrial waste such as waste plastic bags.

The Changhua District Court tried and sentenced Hong Nan to 1 year and 6 months in prison for violating the waste disposal law.

The verdict pointed out that a farmer surnamed Hong (72 years old) jointly owned a piece of land with his younger brother and younger sister in Dacheng Township. Reported illegal dumping of waste. On July 23 of the same year, the Changhua County Environmental Protection Bureau went to the excavation and found that it was actually buried waste chair backs, waste plastic bags and other garbage. The Changhua District Prosecutor's Office filed a public prosecution based on this.

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The old farmer surnamed Hong argued to the Environmental Protection Bureau that he bought the soil for 500 yuan per car, and then asked Hong Nan to help him buy clean soil for 3,000 yuan per car. He has bought about 50 to 60 cars, please pay There are more than 100,000 words.

According to the court investigation, the old farmer surnamed Hong relied on the old farmer's annuity every month to live, and only the money was remitted into his account, and he had no extra funds to pay the backfill price.

During the trial, the judge believed that the defense of the old farmer surnamed Hong was contradictory, and that the defendant ignored the importance of the environment and provided land for others to backfill waste, which might harm public health, so he was sentenced.

It is understood that in recent years, there have been a lot of waste cleaners who specifically look for farmland in remote villages to illegally dump waste and other land cockroaches. The investigation office pointed out that the fish farms and agricultural subsidence in Changhua need to be backfilled, and they need to pay a certain price to hire earthworkers. For soil backfilling, there are unscrupulous operators colluding with the landlords to charge 1,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan per vehicle for backfilling with unidentified earthwork such as plywood, melamine, painted wood boards, slag and construction waste, which may cause Environmental pollution, I feel sympathy for the sentence of the farmer surnamed Hong, and advise me not to sell the land for small profits, because the one who suffers in the end is myself.