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Ministry yet to approve plastic waste import licences – Zuraida

The Housing and Local Government Ministry has not approved plastic waste import licences (AP) for any company since the approval process was frozen in July last year.

Its minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said even though the ministry had set a three-month moratorium on issuing plastic waste AP, it has yet to issue any approval to date to ensure the new procedures set by the ministry would be complied with by the industry.

“Before this, there were 114 companies holding plastic waste AP but only 54 were active and from the total, only eight really complied with the conditions stipulated. Now all of them have to reapply according to the new procedures and conditions.

“After the AP application was reopened, only 19 companies applied and the ministry will study whether the 19 companies are eligible to be issued plastic waste AP,” she told reporters after a raid on an illegal factory which had allegedly been recycling plastic waste in the Sungai Petani Industrial Area in Kedah tonight.

She called on all illegal plastic waste recycling factories to stop their operation until they obtained their licence.

In July last year, the ministry announced that it would be freezing plastic waste AP following serious incidents of pollution in Kuala Langat, Selangor from illegal factories processing imported plastic waste.

- Bernama

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