Thor Chemicals to pay R300m to remove its deadly mercury waste from KZN
But poisoned workers say they have never been compensated
20 October 2019 - 20:58
The department of environmental affairs says it wants more than 3,000 tons of mercury waste stockpiles at the old Thor Chemicals factory in KwaZulu-Natal to be removed by the end of next year.
The department says Thor Chemicals — a British multinational that owned and ran the Cato Ridge plant where drums of toxic sludge are stored — has agreed in principle to pay more than R300m required to export the waste to Switzerland, where it will be disposed of...
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