Plastic Waste Statistics In Malaysia

So despite singapore s greater use of plastic shopping bags per capita than malaysia s singapore s mismanaged plastic wastes per capita are actually 28 times lower than that for malaysia s.

Plastic waste statistics in malaysia. Malaysia is a significant source of plastic waste in our oceans. You will find more infographics at statista. Malaysia seriously has a. Malaysia s nationwide no plastic bag campaign day every saturday and similar such campaigns elsewhere in the country are unfortunately a knee jerk response to our country s waste management.

Imports of plastic waste from malaysia s 10 biggest source countries jumped to 456 000 tonnes between january and july versus 316 600 tonnes purchased in all of 2017 and 168 500 tonnes in 2016. Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in jenjarom kuala langat malaysia. Malaysia has repatriated 3 737 metric tonnes of plastic waste to mainly rich countries since the third quarter of 2019 the country s environment minister said. Lai seng sin reuters a small town in malaysia is teeming with nearly 19 000 tons of plastic waste.

I came across these charts recently on statista the statistics portal for market and consumer data. Malaysia could do a lot better when it comes to plastic pollution. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic waste are dispatched to malaysia every year part of which is stuck in hundreds of containers that have remained unclaimed in several ports in malaysia.