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Seven licensed e-waste plants caught handling smuggled waste
KUALA LUMPUR: Seven of the 57 premises raided in the recent crackdown on illegal e-waste processing were found to have valid licenses.
Environment Department Enforcement Division Director Rosli Zul said investigations revealed that although the seven premises held valid licenses, they were believed to have been processing smuggled e-waste.
"Malaysia is party to the Basel Convention, and one of the provisions under this convention is that we cannot receive e-waste from abroad for processing locally.
"We have 156 licensed e-waste processing plants nationwide and these plants are only supposed to be processing e-waste of domestic origin," he told reporters today.
