Leather tanneries to be removed from City by 2017

Experts invited by the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture to look at the leather working industry reported that leather processing factories in Ulaanbaatar should be centralized in one place. Currently, by being spread through the City water and electricity problems are harder to solve. They also said that establishing a wastewater treatment facility is necessary in Ulaanbaatar.

The Ministry of Industry and Agriculture agreed that it needs to build new settlement areas with schools and kindergartens. Therefore the authorities are focusing on removing leather processing factories that are blamed for environmental damages out of the city by 2017.

According to an estimate currently 140 leather processing factories are operational in the City, emitting polluted water and waste near the area.

There are numerous complaints about the Tuul River pollution caused and affected by leather processing factories by residents in the City.

Feasibility studies on the removal of leather factories from the City to Emeelt station is in a process. The discussion is now focused on the main roads that cross through Emeelt station, which is near a suburb of the City, leading to western aimags from the City. The risk that animal origin infectious disease may spread through the city if the leather processing factories are evacuated to Emeelt station is a risk that is being looked into.