PLASTIC WASTE

Over 250 plastic waste-filled boxes at Penang

There are 265 containers filled with plastic waste stranded at the North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT), as the Customs Department has their hands full inspecting the contents.

The Department now has no choice but to use the field at their quarters in Bagan Jermal as a temporary detention yard, with 11 containers filled with plastic waste there.

Penang Customs Department director Datuk Saidi Ismail said to date, RM1,000 compounds have been issued to each of 130 containers inspected, but...

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Malaysia disapproves developed countries’ plastic waste management

Developed countries must review their management of plastic waste and stop sending such material to developing countries, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Yeo Bee Yin said on Tuesday, May 28.

In a press conference following the inspection of several shipping containers with plastic and other waste at Port Klang, the country’s largest port, Yeo said the government would ship back the waste to the source countries which include the United States, Saudi...

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