SELANGOR, Malaysia — Follow the stench and you will find them: flaming heaps of dirty plastic, gushing black smoke, bringing death to a place otherwise teeming with life. This story also appeared in PRI These are the coastal lowlands along Malaysia’s side of the Strait of Malacca. This is a mostly lush place, studded with […]
Category: Pushing Plastic
For more than 30 years, the plastics industry has waged a war to stave off laws controlling the waste their products create. That’s created a crisis for countries where our plastic trash ends up. Now the U.S. is in the midst of a factory building boom to make even more.
