Govt looking at grading system for plastic waste industry


BUKIT MERTAJAM: The government will look into developing a grading system for facilities processing plastic waste to better regulate the industry, says Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin.

She said factories which import clean plastic and process them directly without cleaning them would be given a first-class grade.

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