The Kuala Langat Environmental Action Association secretary constantly receives information that international smugglers pay a huge amount of money to ferry plastic waste to illegal waste disposal factories, including those in her area of Jenjarom in Selangor. “We found that we were surrounded by illegal plastic waste recycling factories, but initially, Port Klang, West Port and Telok Gong were the centres of this type of factories. She claimed that the international syndicates would pay from RM2,000 to more than RM6,000 to have the waste brought to various places. Pua said residents had complained about the fumes emitting from these illegal factories. She claimed that some of the illegal factories had their own incinerators and would simply burn the plastic waste.

Source: The Star April 23, 2019 23:15 UTC