A study conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board says that about 25 percent of waste materials, with the presence of heavy metals, waste oils, coolants, ozone-depleting substances and others, from an ELV, poses a potential environmental threat.
To curb the air pollution caused due to dismantling of `end-of-life vehicles` in an unscientific way, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has sealed 28 illegal scrapping units in the national capital.
`End-of-life vehicles` (ELVs) mean petrol vehicles which have completed 15 years of registration and diesel vehicles which have completed 10 years of registration and those which have become unusable due to accidents or otherwise.
Such vehicles end up in illegal scrapping units where these are dismantled in a crude and unscientific way, generating toxic fumes and chemicals affecting air quality.
A study conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board says that about 25 percent of waste materials, with the presence of heavy metals, waste oils, coolants, ozone-depleting substances and others, from an ELV, poses a potential environmental threat.
Equipment such as gas cutters, grinders and welding machines have been confiscated, it said in a statement.
The panel has also decided to impose heavy penalties and launch prosecution against such illegal activities, the DPCC said.
"There will be zero tolerance against such illegal scrapping activities in Delhi since the city has been declared as an air pollution control area," it said.
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