Malaysia to send up to 100 tonnes of plastic waste back to Australia

Environment minister says recycling sent from Australia included plastic bottles that were 'full of maggots'The Malaysian government will send back up to 100 tonnes of Australian plastic waste because it was too contaminated to recycle, but will not yet name the companies responsible.On Tuesday, Malaysia's environment minister, Yeo Bee Yin, announced that 3,000 tonnes of waste, sent from around the world, would be returned because it was either rotting, contaminated, or had been falsely labelled and smuggled in. Continue reading...