Plastic waste trade should be stopped

ENVIRONMENT and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man in a media statement issued on March 30 said the Department of Environment (DOE) in cooperation with other agencies had inspected two containers of plastic waste from the United States that had arrived at Port Klang a few days ago.

The inspection found that the plastic waste was clean, homogeneous and in compliance with B3011 of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. B3011 plastic wastes are not subject to the Prior Informed Consent procedure under the Basel Convention, which requires the exporting state to notify the importing country on the transboundary movement of the waste.