Illegal ewaste disposal plant with laundry list of offences raided in Seremban


Negri Sembilan climate change, human resources, entrepreneurship, cooperatives and consumerism committee chairman S. Veerapan looking at some of the ewaste at the premises during the operation.

SEREMBAN: Enforcement teams have seized an estimated 200 tonnes of electronic waste from unnumbered premises near Sg Linggi, an important source of raw water here.

Preliminary investigations have found that the ewaste, believed to have been shipped in from the United States and China via Port Klang, had been fraudulently declared as scrap to be allowed in.

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