From dumping ground to world leader in ethical recycling


  • Opinion
  • Wednesday, 29 May 2019

I CONFESS, when I initially read about the clampdown on illegal plastic recycling centres, I thought to myself: surely the more people out there recycling the better?

This of course stemmed from ignorance. The more I read about how Malaysia is handling plastic recycling, the clearer the irony was of how illegal recycling was harming rather than helping the environment.

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