Waste import to be brought back to Korea 218 SHARES Share it! As the Bureau of Customs in the Philippines uncovered last July illegal plastic wastes which were exported from Korea, Korea’s Ministry of Environment and the Customs Service on November 16 jointly inspected the exporter of the wastes in question, located in Pyeongtaek City. The exporter in question made the export declaration on waste synthetic highly polymerized compound in January 2018. The joint inspection of the exporter’s business site found plastic wastes mixed with a significant amount of alien materials such as wood and metal wastes and wastes which had not gone through an appropriate recycling process. The Korea Customs Service is investigating the exporter in question for the possibility of its exporting of wastes with illegitimately prepared export documentation.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 22, 2018 03:11 UTC