Rayong provincial court yesterday ordered Win Process Co -- a hazardous waste recycling company -- to clean up toxic waste contamination and pay 20.82-million-baht compensation to villagers who had been forced to suffer the effects of the contamination for a decade.
The lawsuit was filed last year by 15 plaintiffs against the company and two executives. Villagers alleged that hazardous waste -- mostly in the form of heavy metals, lubricants, solvents, and chemicals from petrochemical plants in Rayong province -- had been contaminating farmland and public water resources since 2012.
