Suspended jail sentence for tanner
15/07/2010
Media in Arequipa, Peru, have reported that an elderly tannery owner has received a suspended sentence of a year in prison because of poor waste management.
As a measure of how serious the authorities in Arequipa are about tackling poor environmental practice, a court in the city sentenced 86-year-old Remigio Begazo to a year in prison (suspended) after hearing a detailed report of untreated effluent going from his La Victoria tannery into the municipal sewerage system and, from there, into the River Chili.
The judge, Neil Tejada, is reported to have given Mr Begazo a week to close the tannery down or serve the prison sentence.
As reported already on leatherbiz, Peru’s ministry for the environment (Minam) has been offering workshops with the title Profitable Environmental Management to tanners around the country, including in Arequipa.
The ministry said the objective was to help small businesses in the tanning sector incorporate environmental issues into their management strategies while reducing costs and increasing productivity.
German state-owned sustainable development consultancy GTZ led the Arequipa workshop over three days at the beginning of July, with a similar event scheduled to take place in the city of Trujillo from July 20–22.
As a measure of how serious the authorities in Arequipa are about tackling poor environmental practice, a court in the city sentenced 86-year-old Remigio Begazo to a year in prison (suspended) after hearing a detailed report of untreated effluent going from his La Victoria tannery into the municipal sewerage system and, from there, into the River Chili.
The judge, Neil Tejada, is reported to have given Mr Begazo a week to close the tannery down or serve the prison sentence.
As reported already on leatherbiz, Peru’s ministry for the environment (Minam) has been offering workshops with the title Profitable Environmental Management to tanners around the country, including in Arequipa.
The ministry said the objective was to help small businesses in the tanning sector incorporate environmental issues into their management strategies while reducing costs and increasing productivity.
German state-owned sustainable development consultancy GTZ led the Arequipa workshop over three days at the beginning of July, with a similar event scheduled to take place in the city of Trujillo from July 20–22.
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