Kuala Lumpur will return 60 shipping containers' worth of plastic waste to the U.S., Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan.
Countries in southeast Asia are increasingly determined to return tons of plastic rubbish back to North America and Europe. On Tuesday, Malaysia’s environment minister, Yeo Bee Bin, announced the country would send 3,000 tons of plastic waste currently sitting in a Malaysian port to the countries that produced it.
Malaysia has been at the forefront in the fight against foreign waste since last year, when it passed legislation aimed at stopping contaminated foreign waste making its way into its ports. The graphic below, provided by Statista, illustrates the biggest exporters of plastic waste and scrap in the world.Thailand and Vietnam have also introduced similar regulation as countries in the region began fighting a problem, which first arose early last year when China stopped accepting plastic waste from the rest of the world.
Philippine officials have claimed that a private firm falsely claimed that the containers only included recyclable plastic, while the garbage instead consisted of all sorts of waste, including plastic bags and adult diapers. In the same week, Australia sent crates of shredded municipal trash marked as fuel to the Philippines. Manila is currently working on sending it back.
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