Plastic Waste In Malaysia
A small town in malaysia is teeming with nearly 19 000 tons of plastic waste.
Plastic waste in malaysia. In malaysia plastic waste pollution is an equally major concern. Cnn malaysia has sent back 150 shipping containers of plastic waste to rich countries including the united states united kingdom france and canada insisting it won t be the garbage dump of. In malaysia ocean bound plastic waste is transformed into furniture.
Ever since china banned the import of plastic in 2017 malaysia has seen an influx of garbage. Malaysia will return illegally imported plastic waste to the source country. Malaysia s imports of plastic waste from its 10 biggest source countries jumped to 456 000 tonnes between january and july versus 316 600 tonnes purchased in all of 2017 and 168 500 tonnes in 2016.
According to a greenpeace report malaysia imported 195 444 46 metric tonnes of plastic waste from the united states us from january to july 2018 alone in comparison to a total of 97 544 metric tonnes for january to november 2017. Last year the switzerland based race for water foundation revealed that malaysia ranked 8th globally for worst management of plastic waste and 5th in the world for plastic pollution in oceans. The report warned that there were regulation violations in the disposal of imported plastic waste to the country plastic is burned on roadsides in the open air dumped in unregulated or poorly regulated dump sites close to bodies of water discarded.
Yeo bee yin has said she has ordered several thousand tonnes of imported plastic waste to be sent back to the. Malaysia has sent back tons of plastic waste to rich countries saying it won t be their garbage dump but the problem has persisted. Malaysian authorities have already identified and halted at.
The move was taken after reports of serious pollution in kuala langat caused by factories processing plastic waste. On april 24 malaysia launched a joint task force to crack. If playback doesn t begin shortly try restarting your device.
