Britain is to take back 42 containers of plastic waste that had been illegally shipped to Malaysia, the two countries have said. The containers, which arrived at Penang Port between March 2018 and ...

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.

Cambodia will send back more than 80 shipping containers filled with plastic waste, the country's environment ministry has said. Some 1,600 tonnes of waste was found in 83 shipping containers in ...

Plastic pollution is the most visible example of the havoc we’re causing to our planet. From our local beaches to the remote Arctic, it is choking our oceans and killing wildlife. One in two marine ...

FILE PHOTO: Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in Jenjarom, Kuala Langat PARIS (Reuters) - Malaysia has shipped 43 illegal plastic waste containers back to France as part of a ...

Malaysian authorities are seeking to repatriate shipping containers full of mixed plastic waste described as ‘contaminated and low quality’, with some material believed to have originated in the UK.