{"id":59199,"date":"2020-01-20T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59199"},"modified":"2020-01-20T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:27:34","slug":"msia-sends-back-150-containers-of-plastic-waste-to-send-another-110-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59199","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sia sends back 150 containers of plastic waste, to send another 110 by June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <br>\u201cThis is not about money, it is about dignity and Malaysia cannot become the world&#8217;s dumping ground.\u201d   <\/p><cite>Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of  Energy,  Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/plastic-yeo-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/plastic-yeo-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/plastic-yeo-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/plastic-yeo-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>BUTTERWORTH, Jan 20: Yeo Bee Yin (centre) taking a look at documents related to the containers of plastic waste to be shipped back to their countries of origin from the Penang Port. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUTTERWORTH, Jan 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia will send back a total of 110 containers comprising illegal shipment of plastic waste back to their countries of origin by the middle of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has already sent back 150 containers of such waste to 13 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change\u00a0Yeo Bee Yin said of the 110 containers to be sent back, 60 were from the United States, 15 from Canada, 14 from Japan, nine from the United Kingdom, eight from Belgium, and\u00a0one each from Mexico, Hungary, France and Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said\u00a0the earlier batch of 150 containers,\u00a0weighing about 3,737 tonnes,\u00a0were sent back to 13 countries of origin since the third quarter of last year from Port Klang, Penang Port and Sarawak Port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, these 110 containers,&nbsp;weighing up&nbsp;to 20 tonnes each, will be sent&nbsp;to their countries of origin by mid-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do not need to pay a single cent as the cost of sending back the waste will be fully borne by the shipping liners and importers,\u201d&nbsp;she told reporters after inspecting the containers at North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT), here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Yeo said the government will launch an action plan on illegal plastic importation next month that will help the different agencies to coordinate enforcement and speed up the process of returning the waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is not about money, it is about dignity and Malaysia cannot become the world&#8217;s dumping ground,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the minister said despite the dropped in the number of illegal plastic recycling factories nationwide, the enforcement activity against such factories&nbsp;will continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere will be reports that some factories reopen and resume operations after being ordered to close but we will close them again and again. We will see who is more persistence as we will continue and will not give up on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue until there is no place for this kind of illegal activities in Malaysia,\u201d&nbsp;she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is not about money, it is about dignity and Malaysia cannot become the world&#8217;s dumping ground.\u201d Yeo Bee Yin, Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change BUTTERWORTH, Jan 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia will send back a total of 110 containers comprising illegal shipment of plastic waste back to their countries of origin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}