Bekasi, a satellite city of more than two million people, made headlines a couple of months ago when the Burangkeng villagers staged a demonstration to demand financial compensation for the misery they suffer.Huge quantities of trash were rerouted to Southeast Asian countries following China’s decision to reject foreign waste in January last year.
A spokesperson from the environment ministry approached by CNA said he was not aware of the presence of foreign waste at Burangkeng. Another villager, who did not want to be named, claimed that the foreign waste has polluted their water.The village head of Burangkeng, Mr Umar, said scavengers have also experienced rashes after entering the illegal dump site.
When China turned away foreign waste, Indonesia’s imports of waste rose sharply from 10,000 tonnes per month in late 2017 to 35,000 tonnes per month late last year, according to a Greenpeace report.
Nina trash is exported to your country because your government takes the money to allow it. And then dumps it to backyards and in ocean. Write to your government to stol it. And sort out your water system. So ppl don’t have to drink from plastic bottles
Like a lot of these issues the Morrison Government hope it will go away or we get distracted by them.
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