Sri Lanka is demanding the U.K. take back more than a hundred containers of waste, joining the growing list of Asian countries pushing back against developed nations that export trash as recycling.
The 111 containers consisting of plastics, syringes and suspected human remains are believed to have been sent from the U.K. in 2017, the BBC reports, but were only inspected last week after port officials complained of a putrid smell.
Authorities said Tuesday they had taken “immediate action to order the re-export” of the waste. Protestors held a demonstration Wednesday outside the British High Commission in the capital Colombo and handed over a letter urging the U.K. to take back the waste. “This is a third-world country, we are struggling with so many issues, and how can we be responsible for somebody else’s garbage?” One protestor said.
The global trash trade reached a turning point early last year when China, once the world’s biggest receiver of plastic waste, banned its import.(www. time.com)
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