Thanks Canada, real class! And Murika! But guess who organised it? Yup...
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By Prak Chan Thul
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Reuters•July 19, 2019
By Prak Chan Thul
PHNOM PENH, July 19 (Reuters) - Cambodia is investigating a locally based Chinese firm for illegally importing around 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste from the United States and Canada, the Southeast Asian country's customs chief told Reuters on Friday.
Southeast Asian nations have emerged as some of the top destinations for plastic waste exporters in the West after China introduced a partial ban on waste imports in 2018 which disrupted the flow of more than 7 million tonnes of plastic scrap a year.
Kun Nhim, director general of Cambodia's General Department of Customs and Excise, told Reuters that a Chinese firm based in Cambodia had imported the waste, which was discovered this week in 83 shipping containers at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port.
"There will obviously be fines, although how much will depend on our law, and the company may face termination if it is found to have committed a crime," Nhim told Reuters.
He identified the company as "Chingyuen", but Reuters was unable to trace a company of that name.
On Wednesday, Cambodian authorities said that they would send the waste back to its stated countries of origin - the United States and Canada.
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh said it was aware of the reports.
"We have requested additional information and are offering U.S. government assistance to determine both the exporter (country of origin) and the importing entity here in Cambodia," Embassy spokeswoman Emily Zeeberg told Reuters.
The Embassy of Canada in Phnom Penh did not immediately respond to request from Reuters for comment.
The containers had been arriving over a period since October 2018, Nhim said.
They had been mislabelled as "recycled products", according to Neth Pheaktra, Secretary of State at Cambodia's Ministry of Environment.
"The Royal Government of Cambodia does not allow the import of plastic waste to be recycled in Cambodia," Pheaktra said.
"Cambodia is not a waste bin".
A ship carrying 69 containers of waste mislabelled as plastic returned to Canada last month from the Philippines, closing a chapter on a dispute that started in 2013 and sparked a diplomatic furore between Ottawa and Manila. ( Editing by James Pearson and Nick Macfie)
Who woulda thunk they were involved?
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Who woulda thunk they were involved?
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
I don't get it. It costs several thousand dollars to ship a container from the Americas to the far east. Why do it? Where's the profit? Who's benefiting and how?
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There's also the small matter of who was paid to import all this garbage, it's not like some Canadian/US companies dumped it there by themselves.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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The can find ivory hidden in logs, but miss 80+ containers of rubbish...Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:08 pmThere's also the small matter of who was paid to import all this garbage, it's not like some Canadian/US companies dumped it there by themselves.
Given the amount of rubbish already there, perhaps they thought it wouldn't be noticed.
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CNE reports a spokesman saying that the company is registered to a Cambodian, but has strong Chinese links.
https://cne.wtf/2019/07/19/cambodia-pro ... e-imports/
https://cne.wtf/2019/07/19/cambodia-pro ... e-imports/
Bringing the news. You stay classy, nas, Cambodia.
20 or 40 ft? Either way a lot of money and effort to move something with practically no value.
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From NPR:
Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It?
March 13, 20194:28 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
The U.S. used to ship about 7 million tons of plastic trash to China a year, where much of it was recycled into raw materials. Then came the Chinese crackdown of 2018.
Olivia Sun/NPR
Plastic garbage from Trader Joe's and an AARP card are peeking out of hillocks of plastic trash piling up in Indonesia.
It's a sign of a new global quandary: What should wealthy countries do with their plastic waste now that China no longer is buying it?
For years, America sold millions of tons of used yogurt cups, juice containers, shampoo bottles and other kinds of plastic trash to China to be recycled into new products.
And it wasn't just the U.S. Some 70 percent of the world's plastic waste went to China – about 7 million tons a year.
Numerous Chinese millionaires were minted as recycling businesses started and blossomed. Sure, they paid for the world's plastic and paper trash, but they made far more money from processing it and selling the resulting raw materials.
But last year the Chinese government dropped a bombshell on the world recycling business: It cut back almost all imports of trash. And now a lot of that plastic gets shipped to other countries that don't have the capacity to recycle it or dispose of it safely.https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... nt-want-it
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Well with the trade deficits between the US/Canada and East/ South East Asia a whole lot of containers get sent back empty. So smuggling a few tons of waste in among the thousands of empty containers isn't really going to cost much at all. There was a scandal back in 1998 about "radioactive waste" being dumped in the hills around Sihanoukville. It turned out to not actually be radioactive, it was more just hazardous waste from Taiwan.
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