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Anger rises in Malaysia: "We are not your trash"

This is the cry of anger of a Malaysian. China's decision to close its doors to foreign plastics in early 2018 has plunged the global recycling industry into chaos, and Southeast Asia is drowning in Western waste.

Example in Malaysia: Officially, 170 illegal recycling factories have been closed there ... but the controls are lax and the local mafias continue their dirty business. Anger rises: "We are not your trash." A great report signed Heike Schmidt who tracked our waste ... from Paris to Malaysia.

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