Malaysia has recently sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries. 'If people want to see us as the rubbish dump of the world, you dream on,' the country's environment minister says.
Malaysia's Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin, third from left, inspects a container with plastic waste at a port in Butterworth, Malaysia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year, with the environment minster warning on Monday that those who want to make the country a rubbish bin of the world can “dream on.
Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said another 110 containers are expected to be sent back by the middle of this year. She said the Malaysian government didn’t pay a single cent, with the costs of sending back the waste fully borne by the shipping liners and companies responsible for importing and exporting the waste.
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