Malaysia says no more to imported plastic waste

Updated 29 May 2019
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Malaysia says no more to imported plastic waste

Hundreds of tonnes of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia says, insisting the country does not want to be a global dumping ground. Around 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), with much of it ending up in landfill or polluting the seas, in what is becoming a growing international crisis.
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