Malaysia ships back plastic waste to France, Britain, Japan

Malaysia has shipped 150 containers of plastic waste back to more than a dozen countries including France, Britain and Japan, its environment minister said Monday, pledging to not let the country become the world's dumping ground.The 150 containers, containing 3,737 tons of plastic waste brought into the country illegally, included 43 to France, 42 to Britain, 17 to the United States, 11 to Canada, 10 to Spain and five to Japan.Malaysia has been grappling with an influx of plastic waste from abroad and began cracking down on it hard in 2018 after China took the lead by imposing a ban on imp…READ FULL ARTICLE