Malaysia will return contaminated plastic waste to the countries that shipped it
This is a good thing. I had no idea we weren&#x27;t recycling our plastic and just shipping it across the world, only to get dumped in a forest or into the ocean.<p>We need to stop producing so much plastic. We need laws to standardize plastics so that only purely recyclable plastics exist and no more single-use plastics, or compostable containers. Anything else should be banned.<p>I don&#x27;t care if it runs some companies out of business because the costs are too high. I would rather those companies fail than keep piling up with all this sickening useless and ultimately poisonous garbage from single-use plastics.<p>We should also make it illegal to ship our garbage outside of the country. That will force us to deal with our own problems.