In Pakistan tanneries are adopting new environmetally sustainable practices.   Muhammad Ali Randhawa,  Commissioner of  Lahore, has said that before setting up a new tannery , a chrome discharge treatment plant must be installed. The Commissioner   expressed these views while chairing a meeting regarding setting up water treatment plants for leather factories (tanneries) and a ban on new tanneries without treatment plants.      the commissioner  further said 147 out of 272 chrome-discharging tanneries will have to establish chrome treatment plants. “Those factories that do not install chrome and water treatment plants will be sealed; there will be no other way,”.    The full authority of Tanneries Water Treatment Plants Management Agency lies with the owners of tanneries; they must ensure that toxic water does not come out of the tannery. “We will allow the tanneries to play with the public health,” he added. He noted that as per the instructions of the Lahore High Court, it was mandatory to install a water treatment plant in every tannery.    The tanneries owners have assured the administration that chrome water treatment plants will be activated in all the tanneries in the next two and a half months.  (ICE ISLAMABAD)

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