Illegal recyclers mushrooming in Penang


GEORGE TOWN: They wash tonnes of plastic waste each day and release an unimaginable cocktail of organic and chemical fluids into the public drainage.

Then at night, they burn plastics which cannot be recycled, creating an acrid stench and releasing cancer-causing dioxins into the air.

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