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With the rising awareness toward recycling and plastic reduce in Malaysia, it’s shocking to find that plastic waste is also shipped to our country and formed a six meters tall plastic dump!
Malaysia have reportedly been harboring plastic waste from other countries and it was revealed in a new BBC documentary that the plastic waste intended for recycling in the UK was shipped to be dumped in our beloved country.
The TV presenter picked up plastic waste and recycling bags with brands that were way too familiar from the UK supermarkets and one bag even says, “We don’t want unrecyclable rubbish.” The irony.
“When we put this in our recycling back in the UK, we think we're doing the right thing. I do my recycling and I feel good about it,” Fearnley-Whittingstall said.
“At least I used to – I don't feel so good now. I feel embarrassed, I feel ashamed, I feel angry, I feel I've been lied to.”
The people in the UK believed that they were doing their part in recycling only to discover is was exported to Malaysia and piled up in a dumping wasteland, with 130,000 tons plastic waste shipped to Malaysia last year.
'It's horrendous to discover this rubbish dumped abroad. We're doing our bit putting it in the recycling bin – and then it's being left to simply become someone else's responsibility,” said the co-presenter, Anita Rani.
According to The Star, Perak Environment Committee chairman Dr Abdul Aziz Bari said that no information was received on the issue, but the Environment Department has already been tasked to further investigate.
"It's quite embarrassing but I trust the department will also check with the Ipoh City Council. I am confident we can get to the bottom of this.”
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