BANGKOK - Protestors in Bangkok on Thursday dumped plastic waste in front of a government building and called on South-east Asian leaders to ban imports of trash from developed countries.
A group of about 50 Thai activists, some holding placards reading"No Space for Waste", joined Greenpeace campaigners to call for an end to all trash imports to South-east Asia. The trash pile-up in South-east Asia accelerated after China stopped accepting waste in 2018, and Greenpeace says plastic refuse imports have increased by a staggering 171 per cent since 2016.
And last week, Indonesia returned five containers of rubbish to the US, saying it refused to be a"dumping ground". The contaminated groundwater run-off and toxic fumes caused by disposing of plastic and electronic waste can cause serious environmental and health problems if not properly treated.
Funny how capitalistic countries who pay their politicians a fat paycheck yet only a handful of countries have waste to power plants. Sad isn't it.
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