mo4ch:>‘We're not a dumpster!’ Indonesia sends plastic, shoes & DIAPERS disguised as paper waste back to US | Mo4ch News

Indonesia said it won’t become yet another “dumping ground” of the world and returned five containers of waste back to US, joining the growing number of Asian nations that have recently been turning back Western ‘recyclables.’The waste arrived in Indonesia from Seattle back in March. The cargo, shipped by a Canadian company, was supposed to contain paper recycling material, but the Environment and Forestry Ministry discovered multiple “impurities” inside five containers and ordered them to be “re-exported.”The containers were filled with “significant amounts” of various plastic waste and shoes, in addition to other rubbish such as wood scraps, fabrics and even diapers. “Although the containers were originally from Canada, the country of departure was the US,” said Waste and Hazardous Waste Management Directorate general secretary Sayid Muhadhar.This is not appropriate and we don't want to be a dumping ground.Indonesia, which has a very limited capacity to recycle even its own plas…