Southeast Asia Doesn‘t Want to Be the World‘s Dumping Ground. Here‘s How Some Countries Are Pushing Back

The global trash trade has reached a turning point wealthier nations have long shipped their plastic waste to the developing world to be processed, but in recent months, some nations in Southeast Asia have begun sending the exports — much of it contaminated plastic and trash that is unrecyclable — back to where it came from.

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http://time.com/5598032/southeast-asia-plastic-waste-malaysia-philippines/