The owner of a now-defunct Ventura County dry cleaning operation has been ordered to pay more than $30,000 for dumping 110 gallons of hazardous waste in Los Angeles County, officials announced this week.
In a news release , prosecutors with the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Shija Cho, former owner of Unique Cleaners at 2307 East Main Street, dumped two 55-gallon drums labeled “hazardous waste” in a Reseda alleyway in July 2024, about a month after Unique Cleaners was shuttered.
One of the abandoned barrels of toxic materials contained perchloroethylene, a dry cleaning solvent regulated by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, while the second barrel contained used filters and sludge from the dry cleaning operation…