PETALING JAYA: Tonnes of plastic waste from overseas are quickly ferried to secluded areas where the trash is burnt in makeshift illegal factories, and this is big business, claimed pro-green activist Pua Lay Pheng.
The Kuala Langat Environmental Action Association secretary constantly receives information that international smugglers pay a huge amount of money to ferry plastic waste to illegal waste disposal factories, including those in her area of Jenjarom in Selangor.
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