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ASEAN a Destination for World’s Trash, UN Report Says

Valuable components are recycled, but plenty goes into landfill or is dumped illegally

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Apr 03, 2024
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Manila says take this stuff back to Canada

Southeast Asian countries, particularly Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, imported 96.6 percent of the waste for recycling that flowed into ASEAN between 2017 and 2021, much of at the hands of criminal gangs in contravention of laws against imports, according to a massive, multifaceted study by the Unw…

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