台塑汞污泥

依據民國 75 年 12 月台灣地區環境保護年鑑統計資料顯示，台灣地區曾生產汞污泥的鹼氯工廠（製程以汞為電極電解鹽水，副產品是劇毒的汞汙泥）計有台塑前鎮廠和仁武廠、國泰塑膠竹南廠，台鹼樹林廠、台鹼安順廠、台鹼前鎮廠、義芳化工和正泰化工七家工廠。在台塑汞污泥偷渡至柬埔寨事件引起國際宣然大波後，環保單位清查歷年來台塑汞污泥的流向，發現台塑歷年共產生汞污泥13000噸，其中3000噸經固化處理運往柬埔寨、2700噸埋在仁武鄉垃圾場，其餘共有7016噸未經任何處理的汞污泥，被棄置在鯉魚山赤山嚴。

1998年，台塑一批汞污泥被送往柬埔寨施亞努市，並被棄置在海邊，造成當地民眾多人不適，而引起國際譁然大波。這批汞污泥來自台塑的鹼氯工廠，主要生產VCM（PVC單體）所需要的氯氣原料，在製造過程中，其以汞來作為陰極，電解海水或鹽水以生產液鹼與氯氣，因此而產生出汞污泥。

** 環保單位清查歷年來台塑汞污泥的流向，發現台塑歷年共產生汞污泥一萬三千噸，其中三千噸經固化處理運往柬埔寨。兩千七百噸埋在仁武鄉垃圾場，其餘共有7016噸未經任何處理的汞污泥，被棄置在鯉魚山赤山嚴。

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The Mercury-Laced Waste that Formosa Plastics Sent to Cambodia -- There's More Where That Came From!
Update Report by Green Formosa Front, T. J. Wu, Director
Organized & translated by Green Party Taiwan, Linda Gail Arrigo, International Affairs - July 14, 1999

In mid-December 1998, environmental officials in Cambodia began to suspect that a new waste site near the port of Sihanoukville contained some seriously toxic substance, not merely "construction waste" as claimed on shipping records when it arrived from Taiwan on November 30 (The Cambodia Daily, December 15). A worker who had cleaned out the ship's hold died in less than 24 hours; reportedly his extremities turned dark. Nearby villagers who scavenged the site--a hectare or more covered with 3,000 tons of a crumbly light and dark gray substance rather like partly-formed cement, spilling out of the white plastic bags it was once packed in--became ill and two died. The reports set off a panic. In an exodus of some 10,000 people from the port area, four more people died in traffic accidents and one in a riot against the corrupt officials who allowed the shipment and falsified the papers (Reuters December 23). Cambodia called out the army and repacked the waste in metal drums. Thus began an international outcry against one of Taiwan's leading corporations, Formosa Plastics, for shipping dangerous mercury-contaminated waste to a poor Southeast Asian nation with hardly the resources to evaluate the material and protect itself.（Read More）