Plastic trash is a particularly thorny issue. Around the world, a double-decker busload of plastic is burned or dumped every second, the report found, equivalent to 70 million metric tons of burned or dumped plastic annually. The U.S. ships the majority of its plastic refuse abroad. A significant amount of the world’s plastic refuse is exported to Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. People in Jenjarom knew that unauthorized plastic trash fires were burning somewhere near their homes because they could smell the chemicals in the air.

Source: Huffington Post May 21, 2019 02:52 UTC