Suspects held in Jiangsu garbage dumping case

Police in Jiangsu province have detained 19 suspects for allegedly dumping a massive volume of garbage on the banks of Taihu Lake in Suzhou.

Since mid-June, more than 12,000 metric tons of garbage were shipped from Shanghai to a dumping site near a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Suzhou Taihu National Tourism Vacation Zone.

Police said the plan was to dump more than 3 million tons of waste at a cost of 5.4 yuan ($0.80) per ton, over an 18-month period.