News Forum - 130 tonnes of imported waste going back to Australia

[Thaiger]

Many expats living in Thailand are shocked when they see locals dumping their trash on the side of the road, but it turns out there is a much bigger perpetrator of illegal dumping in the Kingdom. The Inter-Pacific Paper Company was caught by Thai authorities shipping 130 tonnes of illegal waste to Thailand from Australia. The Department of Customs contacted the Department of Pollution Control to tackle the thankless task of examining 5 shipping containers full of what looked suspiciously like raw waste material. Inside they found 130 tonnes of waste materials, with about one-third of the containers comprised of […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

If it can be used or recycled back, why can't Australia keep it and recycle in Australia? It is because it is a waste and cannot be recycled. Such practices are common for Australia as it has been doing such dumping of its wastes in developing and third world countries in the name of recycle. All they do is just open a small processing plan in a third world country or make a dubious agreement and simply ship all their shit to other countries,  

[palooka]

1 hour ago, Ramanathan.P said:

If it can be used or recycled back, why can't Australia keep it and recycle in Australia? It is because it is a waste and cannot be recycled. Such practices are common for Australia as it has been doing such dumping of its wastes in developing and third world countries in the name of recycle. All they do is just open a small processing plan in a third world country or make a dubious agreement and simply ship all their shit to other countries,  

Not the only country doing it either

[gopackers]

so is it the australian fault or the company that sneaks the garbage in?  the australian knows about this?  nevermind, they could careless where it went as long as it is outside their country.

[Skip]

11 hours ago, palooka said:

Not the only country doing it either

So that makes it OK

[Bluesofa]

19 hours ago, Thaiger said:

the 130 tonnes of waste will be deported, and sent back to Australia

'deported'? I think the term is 'returned'.

Unless of course the waste is going to be charged with illegal entry and fined for overstay.

[HiuMak]

13 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

If it can be used or recycled back, why can't Australia keep it and recycle in Australia? It is because it is a waste and cannot be recycled. Such practices are common for Australia as it has been doing such dumping of its wastes in developing and third world countries in the name of recycle. All they do is just open a small processing plan in a third world country or make a dubious agreement and simply ship all their shit to other countries,  

That is why Australia is so clean....

[Tim_Melb]

23 hours ago, Ramanathan.P said:

If it can be used or recycled back, why can't Australia keep it and recycle in Australia? It is because it is a waste and cannot be recycled. Such practices are common for Australia as it has been doing such dumping of its wastes in developing and third world countries in the name of recycle. All they do is just open a small processing plan in a third world country or make a dubious agreement and simply ship all their shit to other countries,  

Most western countries have been doing this for a long time. But more to the point who runs the company that is responsible? This behaviour is actually illegal in Australia when the shipment is returned Australian Customs will be very interested in it and the authorities in Australia will be looking into prosecutions too. Since this practice has become illegal in Australia it has often been companies from the destination country that have been responsible for the shipment along side companies from China. I'm not saying that Australians are not also involved as often the companies that were originally disposing of the garbage are well aware of what the subcontractors that make these illegal shipments are doing but take the attitude that it's not their responsibility. And often I these cases they find that the courts do not agree. 

[palooka]

Maybe a lot of the problems start with sorting this waste. 

If the sending countrys "lazy" population sorted properly, not just "chuck it in", then these shipments would reduce.  It gets sent here for cost management of the expenses of sorting.

Have seen Thais here really do their thing sorting of plastic bottles. They remove tops and top rings and bag these separately, heavier density of plastic, worth more apparently, labels are removed to general rubbish or a clean up fire, the bottles are crushed and they get more baht per kilo for doing this. 

Aluminium cans are crushed and sorted separately and again higher value.

Personally I sort my own rubbish and give them away to the collectors.

Never seem to have a problem getting them collected weekly. Wife frowns, she married a Farlung, but that's life.

 

[DesperateOldHand]

Damn Farang.

The purveyors of real nasties that ail us all.