When local investigators scoured a riverbed in southern Malaysia for clues in a chemical dumping case that hospitalized over one thousand people earlier this year, they found a cocktail of toxins, including a colorless liquid commonly secreted when tires are recycled. That led environment officials and police to a small firm called P Tech Resources involved in pyrolysis - a business of burning old tires to make low-grade oil that industry sources say is also common elsewhere in Southeast Asia, China and India. Police have charged a truck driver and all three of P Tech's directors for violat...
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