QuickCheck: Was a factory in Kedah caught adding plastic to fish feed?


FISH will eat almost anything you throw at them. It's not so much a question of greed but of survival – but the same cannot be said of some unscrupulous individuals.

Recently, there was a report about a company caught adding used plastic to fish feed.

Did this really happen?

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No the recycling factory in Kedah was not turning used plastic into fish feed, instead when the Environment Department raided their premises recently they were found to have reused old fish feed bags to store recycled plastic pellets.

Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said Ops Patuh was carried out jointly with the police and the Immigration Department on Wednesday (July 3) morning.

"The inspection found about 100 tonnes of pellets which were packed and labelled as freshwater fish food," he said after the operation to whiten recycling operation sites in the industrial area here.

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