For decades, residents of Nong Phawa village in Rayong has depended on fish and vegatables in the Nong Phawa pond for food and income, but in 2013, an industrial waste recycling factory opened near the community. Its malpractice polluted the pond and damage rubber tree plantations. Meanwhile, villagers began to develop chronic kidney disease. But Nong Phawa is not the only community facing such a suffering. Data gathered by Ecological Alert and Recovery - Thailand (EARTH), a foundation that has long been monitoring environmental crime, found similar problems across the country, where the unchecked rise of waste treatment factories causes harm as they operate without accountability.