Cambodia returns all 83 plastic waste-filled containers to countries of origin

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PHNOM PENH, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has returned all 83 plastic waste-filled containers to their countries of origin, the country's General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) said in a statement on Tuesday.

 

The statement said local Chungyuen Plastic Manufacture Co., Ltd, the illegal importer of the waste, shipped 14 rubbish-filled containers out of Cambodia on Aug. 20 and continued to ship the remaining 69 containers out of the kingdom on Sept. 15.

 

"So, Chungyuen Plastic Manufacture Co., Ltd has fulfilled all the conditions set by the authorities," the statement said.

The company has also paid a fine of 1.03 billion riel (253,900 U.S. dollars) for illegally importing the rubbish into Cambodia, it added.

 

Cambodia found the 83 plastic waste-filled containers at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the southwestern coastal province of Preah Sihanouk on July 16.

 

According to the GDCE, the Chungyuen Plastic Manufacture Co., Ltd had brought the waste into the country in 27 shipments, starting from September 2018 to January 2019.

 

The waste, weighing 1,592 tons in total, was shipped to the country from the United States and Canada, GDCE's director general Kun Nhim said, adding that 70 containers, weighing 1,322 tons, were imported from the United States, and 13 containers, weighing 270 tons, from Canada.

 

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said in late July that the Southeast Asian nation did not allow any import of plastic waste or garbage for recycling.

"Cambodia is not a dustbin where foreign countries can dispose of any out-of-date e-waste," he said.

 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/18/c_138399358.htm

[tifino]

WooHoo!  They really did it!! 

[BritManToo]

What if the waste had come from China?

[tifino]

8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

What if the waste had come from China?

keep for use as plastic concrete filler for their Port?

 

 

Port Lego...

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, BritManToo said:

What if the waste had come from China?

Lad fill for the ever increasing building plan in Sihanoukville

[tgw]

congrats to cambodia, that's the way to do it!

 

they punish the local companies breaking the law and send the stuff back.

 

instead of that, on Western TV we just see reports where the "journalists" read the brands/manufacturers of the trash and demonize Western companies and consumers without even mentioning once the fraudulent local companies who imported the trash and then discarded it illegally, inspite of having signed contracts and getting paid for recycling it.

[ChrisY1]

12 hours ago, BritManToo said:

What if the waste had come from China?

Then they'll send it to Australia

[Pique Dard]

the next western trashcan? let me guess, africa!

[tifino]

5 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

Then they'll send it to Australia

but we already have the MG ZS

[Sydebolle]

The US never gets out of the Cambodian limelight. Well done by the self-declared world's police! 

1970 they installed Lon Nol as their puppet, the dream team Kissinger/Nixon arranged for the systematic destruction of the country, the US forces then left with their tail between their legs through the backdoor which allowed the Khmer Rouge to fill the left-behind vacuum with genocide (Kissinger as a non-Muslim might be able to tell you more about it after he successfully fled his native Germany in 1938) and now they ship their waste across the Pacific to create more havoc and destruction. 

What's next coming in from the capitol?