Malaysia cannot be the world's rubbish dump, says minister

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Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin reacts to Greenpeace's call for Italy to end its illicit export of plastic waste to the country. FMTNews YeoBeeYin

Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin launches her ministry’s initiatives for 2020.

“We do not want hazardous waste. Malaysia cannot be the rubbish dump of the world,” she told reporters after launching the ministry’s 130 initiatives for 2020, here. It said the unrecyclable plastic waste was then kept outside factories, burnt or buried in landfills. Putrajaya has come down hard on illegal recycling factories importing plastic waste and recently returned 150 containers of plastic waste to the UK, France, US and Canada.

 

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But we accept waste paper which China now refuses to handle. Stop deceiving us.

Come on. Some motherfockers in Malaysia has to have agreed to accept these garbage for the Italian to ship them here. Please find these basturds and hang them.

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