Environmental minister says 110 containers being sent back to Romania, asserts that Malaysia will not be the world’s garbage dump FMTNews Waste ToxicWaste Container
Some of the countries involved in dumping their garbage into Malaysia were the US, UK, Vietnam and South Korea.
The ministry has detected 55 containers of toxic waste and plastic from various countries since March when the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, he said. “The environmental ministry was established in March, a few days before the movement control order was implemented. We have since detected 13 containers of toxic waste and 42 containers filled with plastic.“I made a trip down to Tanjung Pelepas port, Johor, after receiving news that there were 110 containers which are now in the process of being sent back to its original country, Romania,” he said in Dewan Rakyat today.
Ibrahim said that among the countries involved in dumping their garbage into the country were the US, UK, Vietnam and South Korea, amounting to a total of 42 containers weighing 796,533 kilograms.
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