Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned U.S. waste imports in 2018.
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Well known for several years now California (collected and non-collected) scrap plastic is negatively recycling. No dilemma. Just quietly goes into the incinerators.
There was a blogger that experimented with 100 gps trackable AirTags affixed to recyclables… all of his plastics (eventually) ended at landfill sites.
Just dump it in the Coke HQ parking lot
Where’s next, Africa?
India
“With scrap inventories building up at ports and yards, and no clear guidance yet on the enforcement discretion or timeline of Malaysia’s new system, the market for imported plastic waste has effectively frozen,” he wrote in an email to people who follow recycling trends, which was shared with The Times.
As a Malaysian, all i can say is:
