Covert team goes to the ground to catch environment polluters

SWCorp Federal Territories director Mohd Zahir outside the courts with his enforcement team. — Filepic

IT TOOK the team almost two weeks and hundreds of mosquito bites later to finally capture the culprits who had been dumping waste illegally on a piece of private land in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur.

The Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory officers from the Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) had staked out for days to find and observe the two individuals dumping construction waste on the land.