Customs says 265 containers filled with plastic waste are lying idle at the Butterworth port after being brought in from overseas since January.
Penang Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh with state Customs director Saidi Ismail inspecting a packaging from a French company that makes industrial adhesives found in one of the containers.
At the Butterworth port, the Customs Department said the exporters of such plastic waste had a similar modus operandi. “We are giving a strong warning to all importers in Penang. You are no long welcome to import plastic waste. You will face the music if you do,” he said. “We will await instructions from the ministry if we are to send this back to their countries of origin,” he said.
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