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Plastics Floods into Southeast Asia
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Malaysia's Broken Global Recycling System
Greenpeace Malaysia has been conducting a field investigation on the broken system of recycling and how it impacts Malaysian society. The findings were shocking: a new ‘dump site’ of plastic waste from more than 19 countries -- most of them are developed countries. The investigation found illegal practices, and blatant violations causing environmental pollution as well as harming people’s health conditions.
Since China banned plastic waste imports in January 2018, countries in Southeast Asia - particularly Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia - have accepted an increased amount of plastic waste. Between January and July 2018 alone, Malaysia imported 754,000 metric tonnes of plastic -- the weight of approximately 100,000 large elephants. It came from countries like the United States, Japan, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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Nandakumar S. Haridas
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Keywords
Keywords:
Break Free from Plastics (campaign title)
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Day
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Dumping
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KWCI (GPI)
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Land pollution
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Outdoors
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Plastics
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Pollution
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Recycling
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Research
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Rubbish
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Waste disposal