Chapter 581 If You Don’t Agree with Pollution Control, I Will Publish a Paper! (If You Are Tired, Take a Nap and Get Extra 10,000 Rewards)

The atmosphere at the banquet suddenly stiffened.

Gretel wanted to say something, but couldn't. Biochemical environmental materials, four major sinkholes, and environmental pollution control are inherently a loss-making business every year...

Why should he let the city lord do this? In other words, what kind of benefit exchange can he provide to let the city lord do this?

You can't just rely on interests, relationships, or pressure...that's not how you do things.

Viscount Joan rejected Gretel's proposal and instantly regretted his mistake. The so-called youth is full of energy, but if it is not full of energy, it is not called young anymore...

Would Master Nordmark be unhappy with such a straightforward rejection?

Oops, he should be more tactful... maybe he should cry a little more? Tell us more about your difficulties?

"Well, Mr. Master, it's not that I don't want to do this. Those people in the village are also my people. It makes me uncomfortable to see them suffer... But, but..."

His round and chubby face wrinkled, and in an instant he changed from a freshly steamed white steamed bun to an 18-pleat bun. Every wrinkle on the eyebrows and facial features is written with the word "poor" in big words:

"If the sewage is not discharged directly, what should I do? I have to clean up the water used for washing the mines. If I put the output of the entire mine into it, I'm afraid it won't be enough! - If it gets to this point, I might as well not open the mine. !”

Gretel was silent. So this is the difficulty of environmental governance: when the cost of a company's pollution control exceeds the company's total profit, what do you want it to do?

Close the factory directly?

It is not impossible to shut it down directly. The problem is, who will solve the problems of local people's employment, taxation, and economy?

Not to mention this world with extremely low productivity, even in Gretel's previous life, many places followed the path of pollution first and treatment later.

Are the local governments and local people really unaware of the pollution?

Poor!

"Besides, I'm not the one who created the dirty water. That workshop discharged much more dirty water than my mine, right? My place is clean, but his efforts to drain it are of no use!"

This is true. According to Grete's observation, yellow smoke was billowing around the workshop, and an unknown amount of sulfide alone was emitted. As for lead? Zinc? cadmium?

The amount of sewage discharged from chemical production is definitely much greater than that from simply washing ore!

Lord Qiao An didn't mention the workshop, but Grete wanted to talk to them. Now that it’s brought up, let me ask by the way:

"Lord Viscount, do you know who owns that workshop? Where are the products sold and what are they used for?"

City Lord Qiao An knows this problem well. When Gretel asked, he clapped his fingers and said clearly:

"That workshop is the property of Viscount Lester in the next county, but I heard that the magician enshrined in their city also has a share. As for the things made, where are they sold..."

The Viscount stood up, took down a pair of glasses from the treasure rack on the side, and placed them in front of Gretel:

"Lead ingots, zinc ingots, etc., it's just those places. As for their dyes, I heard that they are sold to the glass workshop controlled by the Mage Tower. Then, these pairs of cups were given to me by them - "

Grete watched intently. The glass is not unusual, it is clear and transparent, which is normal. The only feature is that the printing on it is more eye-catching:

Bright yellow, bright blue, orange red, fluorescent green. Each color is extremely vivid, and turning it slightly in your hand almost makes you suspect that a rainbow has fallen into the world.

Especially the bright yellow color, Grete felt as if he had just seen it a few days ago. He held the cup and twisted it with his thumb. The fingertips were smooth and smooth. Obviously, the print is still on the inside of the cup, not the outside.

"Can I pour some water in?"

Grete's heart moved and she asked softly. Viscount Joan laughed:

"No problem! Master Nordmark, if you like it, these cups will be given to you directly!"

There is no need to send it. Grete poured half a cup of boiling water into it, covering all the prints, and pushed the cup aside. Then, he spoke softly and discussed with the Lord of the City:

"The sewage from this mine must be treated. I have seen the direction of the water system. The creek coming out of the mountains directly flows into the largest lake in the surrounding area, and the water from Whit Lake irrigates the surrounding area for dozens of miles. Put it there. If you don't care..."

Having said this, Lord Viscount's expression turned ugly. The fields around Whit Lake are some of the best farmland around, and half of the Viscount's own farm is there.

Do you think that the grains, vegetables, beef, and mutton you eat in the future will all be watered by poisonous water?

Absolutely not!

"What should we do? How much will it cost? Otherwise... the mine will not open?"

He asked a series of questions. Gretel sighed:

"This is not necessary. Regarding industrial sewage treatment, I have seen them doing similar projects in Nevis before. To put it simply, it is to harden the drainage channels, introduce the wastewater into the plant pool, and use plants to purify it."

At this point, he proposed to use cement for hardening. He wrote a letter and asked Master Tower to take it to the council to get authorization to open a workshop. While making money, he demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall;

Plants are used to treat sewage. The Natural God Church in Nevis has accumulated technology. You can write to ask and I believe they will be more willing to give it.

It will be handed over to the Natural God Church for sewage disposal later. The City Lord's Mansion only needs to be slightly affixed...

Explain everything clearly. Seeing that Viscount Joan nodded repeatedly, it was obvious that he had taken action. Then he took a clean empty cup, picked up the printed glass from before, and poured hot water into it——

An identification test took a picture and sure enough, there was cadmium in the water.

It's very good. If you drink it for a long time, you won't even know how you died.

Gretel raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled.

"Speaking of which... is that workshop part of Viscount Lester's Mage Tower?"

In the afternoon of that day, Grete rode Apa for hundreds of miles and rushed directly to Sehir City, where Viscount Lester was located. After wandering around the city for half a night, I went directly to the Mage Tower outside the city the next day.

A person's name, the shadow of a tree. Belton Leeds, the presiding mage of Sehir City Mage Tower, is obviously a regular reader of "Arcane" and "Magic", and he has seen Gretel's name in the journal. As soon as I heard it was him, I immediately opened the door to welcome him.

This Leeds mage is one level higher than Gretel in terms of mage level, but he is twenty years older than him. Having been stationed abroad for a long time, he was extremely enthusiastic when meeting a magician from Nevis like Grete.

He personally welcomed them to the gate of the mage tower, took them into the VIP room at the top of the tower, seated the guests and hosts, and urged the subordinate mage:

"Make tea! Bring me the new tea brick! Boil the milk, add sugar cubes, and bring your papers..."

Gretel: "..." It doesn't have to be like this...

The two chatted happily. Grete talked about the latest academic research trends in Nevis, and Master Leeds talked about the local customs and various specialties of Leicester County with great interest. Just when he heard Gretel's request, Master Leeds couldn't help but look embarrassed:

"This... treating sewage is very expensive, and the workshop is afraid that it will lose money. It will affect the performance evaluation of Master Tower and our research funds, which is a big trouble. And to be honest, that workshop is not owned by Master Tower, so I can't do it. host……"

Gretel silently pulled out a stack of papers. Looking around, Master Leeds understood and dismissed all the low-level mages. Grete put down the paper and pushed it along the table:

"...Would you like to take a look at this first?"

He said turning the paper upside down. When Master Leeds saw the title, he silently took a breath of air:

""On the Harm of Cadmium to the Human Body""

The paper is thick and full of pictures and texts. As I flipped through the pages, the contents were shocking: joint pain, bone pain, osteoporosis... liver damage, kidney damage...

Existing cases, cadmium exposure history, and the therapeutic effect of [Detoxification-Cadmium] prove the existence of this damage...

Master Leeds lowered his head slightly and quickly began to recall whether he had accidentally come into contact with this thing in the process of managing the workshop. After recalling it and confirming that it was not the case, I breathed a sigh of relief and continued reading:

"...Our use of cadmium dyes was long before the discovery of this element. [Disperse Yellow], a dye that has been widely used in the production of glass, ceramics, and paints so far."

When Master Leeds read this, he couldn't help but turn his head slightly and glance at the colorful glass windows. This window is also a product of the glass workshop and has the same origin as those glasses:

"When glass and ceramic vessels fired with it contain hot water, cadmium may precipitate and be ingested by users..."

He changed color slightly. Grete sat opposite, observing the words and expressions, and said quietly:

"I bought a few glassware from a glass shop in the city. Any printed glassware can release cadmium when soaked in hot water."

Sweat broke out slightly on Master Leeds' forehead. Glassware, especially printed glassware, is beyond the reach of ordinary people—the customers are all wealthy families. Let them know that the glasses sold in Mage Tower are poisonous?

"...What do you want?"

"I still have a lot to do in Hartland City. I will not return to Nevis within half a month to a month. I will not submit this paper until I return to Nevis."

Gretel answered calmly. During this period of time, the glass workshop should make repairs and recalls, and the glass should be able to be roughly smoothed. Seeing Master Leeds nodding quickly, he suddenly smiled:

"Also, although I don't understand dyes... but the dye peeling off is most likely due to the temperature of the burning glass. If you increase the temperature, it should be solved."

As he said this, he dug through the space bag and took out another pile of paper. Methods for treating smoke from dye workshops; general methods for hardening ditches and plant pools; Elder Erwin’s letter of introduction to the elders of the Unitarian Church in this county...

The method is there, the budget is there, and the contacts are there. Mage Tower's wishes should also be there. It shouldn’t be difficult to promote pollution control in workshops, right?

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