Cambodian officials announced Wednesday that they were sending 1,600 tonnes of trash back to their source -- the United States and Canada.Cambodia is sending back 1,600 tonnes of trash to the US and Canada.A total of 83 shipping containers of plastic waste were found on Tuesday at the major southwestern port of Sihanoukville, said Neth Pheaktra, Secretary of State and Spokesman to the Ministry of Environment.
That move caused a ripple effect through global supply chains, as middlemen sought new destinations for their trash -- such as Malaysia or the Philippines.This pivoting of trash imports has created an illicit industry of unlicensed plastic recyclers. In Malaysia earlier this year, a government crackdown found at least 148 unlicensed recycling factories that pollute local communities with toxic fumes and contaminate bodies of water.
They should melt it and make toys with it 🤪
As a Canadian, I was horrified to learn that what we thought was recycled was actually not. How disappointed this is. Good for Cambodia returning the stuff to the countries. I am ashamed my country would do this.
Deport! Deport! 😆😆😆
Yesss let's get accountable
Hey you liberal hypocritical Nazis! What happened to your Climate Change “protect our planet?” You are the biggest polluters and the biggest bigots!
Ban all plastics.... there’s still a few trees left to destroy in the rain forest right
I’m pretty sure it’s from China.
Stick it in the White House. God knows it's full of trash already.
Time to sort out there own rubbish stop dumping it round the world
Think of all the wasted resources moving trash around.
OurPlasticFeedback
Fake news again It's a recycling company buying back plastics Stupid CNN
Well done !!!!!
Well done!
But let's face it. Why would any country send it's trash to another? I recalled we had a similar incident in Nigeria a while back of dangerous medical waste from d West. Damn terrible ungodly trading activities.
No belong to AMERICA OR CANADa but from China as in Voice of America clearly !
Whoa! Don't dump - recycle! Sounds like a corrupt get-rich-quick garbage disposal scheme got caught out... Hope those perps get THRASHED!
Send them back
Every human being can reduce his plastic consumption. In addition, the recycling rate must be increased.
This is an industry that could use some innovation. Surely there is an American company that can create better ways to recycle and repurpose trash. If there is money to be made, someone will find a way.
Closer look at Trump:
Yes Cambodia 👏
It's time we own our shit, all of it. It's our trash, and we need to deal with it properly. Now, forever, and always. We should be paying huge money to those who can figure out solutions, subsidized by all of us who USE it.
Why cnn is publishing old news? Guys find something new
Trump GOP love pollution send it to Kentucky & Alabama & Arkansas & Louisiana... Well fracking mud from Texas is hitting Louisiana shell fish now so hold off on Louisiana trash
Political promises in shipping containers
Bravo!
This is how Chandler must have felt when he looked inside Monica’s secret closet. 🤢😬😳😂 FRIENDS TheOneWithTheSecretCloset
You take other countries natural resources and send trash in thousands of tonnes to them? UK and US are very wicked
Send it back
nice move
Thug life for Cambodia 🤪😂👏🏻
Would they send the dollars back too?
I everyone's doing this then I think world will be better place than it is now coz one will think twice generating it and throwing it off when it is going to come back like a boomerang... Ha ha
Not in my backyard, hey cathmckenna how do you want to spin this one. Here's an idea how about you get off the bike get your head out of your ass and get an initiative for investment in Canada to 3r reduce, reuse, recycle.
Laughable!
“electronic waste, plastics, and other trash from mostly Western countries get shipped to Southeast Asia”
Send it to donlemon house...most the trash that originates from our media canes from bin
The US will sink it once out in open waters
Damn, Cambodia is gangsta...
Well this is awkward...
It's more economical to use it for fuel and recycling.
What about all the waste of resources and carbon dioxide emissions created in doing so ? Maybe rethink an alternative solution
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Ouch
They can give it back to the people complaining about being charged 5 cents for a plastic bag
Oh yeah, almost forgot about this thing. Why my Gov't thought this was a good idea is beyond me.
Great decision
krispydean_
Trash back to trashville
Send to Trump office so the smell drives him crackers
FUN FACT! 90 percent of plastic waste comes from Asia and Africa. ‘50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know’ Jerome Hudson’s Book
It might be made in USA but All that shits thrown into the ocean from Indonesia. It’s been scientifically proven.
GypsyNilsen Thats insane.... Its like saying Ive used this toilet roll, but Im taking its plastic wrapping back to the shop or manufacturer... Cambodia sort ur own shyt out
Prawidłowo.!! Niech każdy utylizuje je w swoim kraju. A nie zaśmieca najbiedniejsze Państwa. Oraz niszczy KLIMAT. To musi już jutro nastąpić. Nie ma czasu . Czas Politycy mieli do dziś. Nie zrobili nic. Ostatnia szansa.
Do that's where my used rubbers go!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
And how much did it cost to do this
I produce little trash because I try. I don’t buy Amazon because I hated the packaging and dealing with it. I compost because it’s easy and I get a valuable product. I work at it, and I hope more and more people will.
Good! The Duterte affect! Smaller Nations have a right to stand up for themselves!
Good for them
This is how recycling is actually being done!
No takesies backsies!
Let them try China,perharps tons of Trash will increase.
Pretty good reaction ...👌
Send it to TRUMP
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Dump it on trumps head the next time u see him
Who sends this anyway, Keep your own garbage in your own country
Who's writing the articles today, tons or tonnes? Americans use tons😉
Good.
But if we slap a tariff on it, will they send it back to us?
How do they know its from Canada or the US ?
An opportunity they need to utilise.Recycling or produce new products. Wasting capitals.
Canadians have no idea where the contents of their blue bin ends up. Canadians pay property tax, city pays someone to haul away the trash. Where it goes is anybody’s guess. ottawacity JimWatsonOttawa fordnation JustinTrudeau
Moral: Don't recycle
Send it straight to WH. That's where the white trash is!
As they should, it's symbolic of our President, trash.
Are they sending it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
That make senses!
Classless America. Trump = no class
Even Cambodia is more concerned about global warming!
Asia is overwhelmed by its plastic pollution. Dire need to address supply chain & consumer habits. Please find an alternative way of disposal, better even a solution ASAP. TY.
Do you know how much that would cost? Tell the idiot politician to sit back down. Let the grown ups do the talking.
Probably costs more to send than getting it done...
Send it to California, they LOVE trash.
America already has enough trailer park trash in the White House to keep us busy with.
It should be sent to FNN
Well done cambodia
Send them to the Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago.
Good job Cambodia !Well done.
This westerners are nothing of a kind
No....don’t send more Liberal Democrats back here!
Send it to Mar-a-lago.
Way to go Cambodia!!!! What a shame to those governments who dump trash to other people's homeland.
Maybe they could use the money instead for their people.
Does this mean we can send our trash back to Somalia?
New style in Colonialism, trash acn have also our trash! How Ya doin Humans? Regards : Yep where are up thre in the skies! Whooooaaa 🙃
Welldone Cambodia