Wintai Sock factory fined for polluting water sources

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Wintai Sock factory fined for polluting water sources

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Garment factory fined after pollution claims
05 December 2017
- The Ministry of Environment has fined a Chinese garment factory in Takeo province $7,500 after villagers complained the factory was polluting nearby streams with untreated waste.

Klaing Sambath Village Chief Ouch Monh said sewage from Wintai Sock Manufacture Ltd, in Bati district’s Putsar commune, had been flowing into local streams since last year and was particularly bad during heavy rains.

“The water smells very bad, and when the water hit the grass, it killed the grass,” Monh said...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/g ... ion-claims
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Re: Wintai Sock factory fined for polluting water sources

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I guess they were working damn hard making all those socks for Scobie on TOF :D

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