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Indonesia said on Tuesday it would send more than 210 tonnes of waste back to Australia, as the Southeast Asian nation unanimously opposed becoming a dumping ground for foreign waste, Agence France-Presse report.
A spokesman for Indonesia's East Java Province Customs told AFP that among the eight containers seized in Surabaya City were supposed to be just recyclable waste paper, but the authorities found that they were also mixed with hazardous substances and household waste, including plastic bottles and packaging bags, Used diapers, e-waste and ca.
Indonesia's environment ministry said in a separate statement on Monday that after the inspection, it recommended that "these items should be re-exported (back.
The report pointed out that China's decision in 2018 to ban the import of foreign plastic waste has led developed countries to seek other places to deal with their exported was.
Indonesia announced last week that it would return 49 containers full of garbage to France and other developed countri.
Horrifying images of rivers in Southeast Asia clogged with rubbish and reports of kilograms of rubbish found in the stomachs of Dead Sea creatures have sparked global concerns about plastic polluti.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, around 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year, much of which ends up in landfills or polluting the oceans, in what has become a growing international cris.
