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Malaysia will return 42 containers of illegal plastic waste to the UK, which has agreed to take them back, as the Southeast Asian nation continues its fight against becoming the world’s dumping ground for trash.
The containers, which arrived at Penang Port between March 2018 and March 2019, were classified as illegal because they failed to comply with the necessary paperwork, according to a joint statement by Malaysia’s Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change and the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia joins governments in Asia, including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, which are pushing back against unwanted rubbish from overseas that has accumulated within their borders and led to illegal recycling, open burning, as well as illnesses tied to water and air pollution.