Meaning
Industrial waste streams must undergo uninterrupted neutralization and purification before they can be safely discharged into the environment. The process of continuous treatment runs in parallel with active manufacturing lines to neutralize chemical effluents. This method prevents batch-release pollution incidents in heavy industrial zones.
Process Regulation
The State Administration for Market Regulation enforces national standard GB/T 31962, which governs effluent discharge into municipal sewers. Under this legal framework, continuous treatment must be equipped with online monitoring sensors that transmit real-time acidity and heavy metal data directly to the local environmental protection bureau. This statutory link ensures that the factory operates within permitted levels at all hours.
Verification Metric
Inspectors evaluate these systems by checking the correlation between manufacturing runtimes and emission neutralization logs. The treatment system must run whenever the production lines are active. This metric is verified by comparing the electricity consumption of treatment pumps with the main production rectifiers.
Environmental enforcement teams review these digital logs during both scheduled and unannounced site audits.
Enforcement Action
Failing to run the continuous treatment system while production lines are operating is treated as a deliberate evasion of pollution control equipment under the PRC Criminal Law. The local environmental protection bureau can issue an immediate cessation order. For foreign-owned operations, this result leads to severe reputational damage and the loss of local tax incentives.
Executives can face administrative detention if the bypass of treatment systems is proved.
