Factory’s burning sawdust pits greet DoE inspection team


BUKIT MERTAJAM: The sawdust pits were still burning at the illegal carbon filter-processing factory in Sungai Lembu here as authorities moved in to shut it down.

A six-member Department of Environment (DoE) team went to the factory yesterday and found 31 burning pits.

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