AND MALAYSIA IS ONE OF MAIN PORTS THAT RECEIVE AND EXPORT EWASTE TO......

Yes, we are one of the main ports that receive and then dispatch ewaste to DEVELOPING countries! Scroll DOWN to MAP on previous posting.

Here is a report from NPR:

Many people will receive a new computer or cell phone this holiday season — and throw out their old equipment. And when old TVs and computers end up in landfills, the toxic metals and flame retardants they contain can cause environmental problems.

Yet even recycling your e-waste, as it's called, does not always mean you're doing the right thing.

The dirty little secret is that when you take [your electronic waste] to a recycler, instead of throwing it in a trashcan, about 80 percent of that material, very quickly, finds itself on a container ship going to a country like China, Nigeria, India, Vietnam, Pakistan — where very dirty things happen to it," says Jim Puckett, the executive director of the Basel Action Network, which works to keep toxic waste out of the environment.

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After dumping, what happens to ewaste?

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