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Article: Toxic waste dumping query
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- The Malay Mail
- Article date:
- July 8, 2004
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TAIWAN is not taking it back and Malaysia appears to be saddled
with some 12,000 metric tons of toxic waste imported into the country
by a local company.
The topic was raised by DAP Batu Gajah member Fong Po Kuan.
Fong said that during the last session of the House, the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Environment had conceeded that toxic waste
had been brought into the country.
The Ministry had said the importer used falsified documents to
bring in the material.
Fong said subsequently it was revealed that 386 containers
contained toxic waste and of this, 223 were found at the Pasir Gudang
port in Johor.
"These containers were not cleared for release but 81 were cleared
but not removed from ...