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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, June 5 (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Plastic waste makes up 29 per cent of some 229,496 tonnes of disposed material in landfills in 2021, said Minister of Development Dato Seri Setia Ir Suhaimi Gafar in a World Environment Day message.
It is the second top waste composition in landfills, said the minister, adding that in a nationwide marine debris campaign conducted last year, 80 per cent of waste collected from beaches were plastics, a majority of which were plastic bottles.
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