‘Waste being dumped across borders to avoid detection’


FT SWCorp enforcement officers at an illegal dumping site. There are some 30 such hotspots in Kuala Lumpur.

CROSS-BORDER waste dumpers are finding isolated spots along jurisdictional boundaries to carry out their illegal activities.

These culprits resort to dumping their waste across state and municipal boundaries in the hopes of avoiding detection.

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