Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said an additional 110 containers are expected to be sent back by the middle of this year. Yeo said talks were ongoing with U.S. authorities to take back 60 more containers this year. Canada also has 15 more containers; Japan, 14; the U.K., nine; and Belgium, eight, of the 110 containers that are still being held at Malaysian ports, she said. Advertisement“If people want to see us as the rubbish dump of the world, you dream on,” Yeo told reporters during inspection at a port in northern Penang state. We just want to send back [the waste] and we just want to give a message that Malaysia is not the dumping site of the world,” she added.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 20, 2020 06:33 UTC