Article 67VE2 Paint firm fined after toxic chemical released into Devon river

Paint firm fined after toxic chemical released into Devon river

by
Steven Morris
from Environment | The Guardian on (#67VE2)

One sample taken close to the plant contained 80,000 times the safe level of banned substance TBT

A large marine paint-making company has been fined 650,000 after a highly toxic banned chemical was washed out from a holding tank into a pristine" river in south-west England.

International Paint Ltd utterly failed" to control a substance called TBT that it had stored at its mothballed plant on the banks of the Yealm in Devon, a judge concluded.

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