In a statement, it said it would work together with the Ministry of Energy, the Royal Malaysian Customs Department and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to ensure that illegal smuggling and false declarations of plastic waste did not continue.
The statement came following reports on Tuesday that plastic waste was now being smuggled into the country via shipping containers that were falsely declared so as to avoid the requirement for a permit. "We have found that there are containers which have contaminated plastics, but it is being declared that they are not 3915 plastics.
"If we don't investigate, such plastic waste can enter the country, and these cannot be recycled," she said during a press conference at Westport here on Tuesday .