PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is not desperate to accept waste from other countries for a pittance, says MCA spokesperson Mike Chong Yew Chuan (pic).
Chong was responding to a news report that quoted Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s confirmation that plastic waste importers must pay RM20 for every tonne of scrap brought into the country for recycling beginning June.
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