Indonesia returns another 49 boxes of "foreign garbage", domineering!

The government is determined not to be the garbage dump of Western countries

Indonesia said on July 2 that customs in Batam, northern Indonesia, will return 49 containers of toxic waste and garbage to the United States, Australia and some European countri.

According to the "Jakarta Post" report, Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry previously said that five containers containing "foreign garbage" had been returned to the United States because they contained plastic was.

"We are coordinating with importers to return them immediately," said customs spokesman Sumarna,noting that the rubbish came from the United States, Australia, France and Germa.

China bans imports, and Southeast Asia suffers

Since January 2018, China has completely banned the import of foreign waste, including 24 types of solid waste including waste plastic, paper, waste slag, and textil.

It was then used to fill the gap in China's exports mainly from Southeast Asian countries, including Malaysia and Indones.

Indonesia has joined in as countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines reject or return "foreign garbage" to protect the environme.

Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Minister Bakar issued a warning as early as June that any illegally imported waste would be "repatriated" immediate.

Actively cooperate with Japan

In addition to European and American countries, as the world's second largest exporter of waste plastics, Japan, on the one hand, strengthens its ability to "self-digest" and, on the other hand, finds business opportunities from the dilemma of waste disposal in Southeast Asian countries - exporting waste treatment and incineration power generation to these countries technolo.

According to the Nikkei news network, the Japanese government plans to introduce Japanese experience in Southeast Asia by fiscal year 2023 and build 10 demonstration cities for waste treatment and incineration power generati.

In Indonesia, the problem of marine pollution caused by insufficient landfill treatment plants is serious, and a management system to prevent garbage from flowing into the ocean needs to be establish.