Chinese factory raided for environmental, labor offenses

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Chinese factory raided for environmental, labor offenses

PATTAYA:--Banglamung officials raided an illegal Chinese recycling plant for pollution, tax and labor-code violations.

District Chief Naris Niramaiwong, flanked by soldiers, police and officials from the Chonburi Industry Ministry office, stormed DK Plastic (Thailand) in Takhiantia June 8 following a barrage of complaints from neighbors that the plant was releasing sewage into a local canal and employing illegal aliens.

 

The plant, opened as a polyethylene-resins crusher, was found to be holding hundreds of tons of electronic waste in the walled-off, four-rai property.

 

Workers scattered as officers swooped in, but 21 Burmese nationals were taken into custody, 13 of which were found to have no work permit. Officers also recovered walkie-talkies, untaxed foreign cigarettes and gas-spray lighters, all of which are illegal.

 

An inspection of the property found plastic waste and other wastewater being illegally flushed into a waterway.

Chinese manager Chen Youglin, 39, was arrested after he failed to produce any legal permit or license for the facility to operate.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/chinese-factory-raided-environmental-labor-offenses-212841

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2018-06-15

[champers]

I knew it. It's those pesky foreigners giving Thailand a bad name. 

[balo]

No its the Chinese, not just any foreigner, too many of them open illegal businesses here and in this case also destroy the environment we're living in.