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Towards regional cooperation on sustainable plastic recycling: comparative analysis of plastic waste recycling policies and legislations in Japan and Malaysia

机译:Towards regional cooperation on sustainable plastic recycling: comparative analysis of plastic waste recycling policies and legislations in Japan and Malaysia

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Asia currently faces a serious crisis involving plastic wastes. Efforts to curb plastic waste in the region are mostly hampered by inadequate recycling infrastructure, unsustainable disposal practice, low level of recycling awareness and persistent shipping of large amounts of waste from developed countries to the region. The ban on plastic waste import by China in 2017 worsened the situation by causing unsustainable shipping of waste from high plastic waste-generating countries such as Japan to alternate destinations in Southeast and East Asia. The Japanese government is frantically looking for options to manage plastic waste piling up on the domestic front. Malaysia became one of the leading alternative destinations for plastic waste after the ban by China. This work is aimed at conducting a comparative analysis of plastic recycling policies and legislations between Malaysia and Japan to yield synergistic solutions between the two countries to combat the current predicament. The comparison will signify two typical development patterns in developed countries and developing countries and will be able elucidate future directions for other countries with similar policy and legislative transitions in the region. A set of nine criteria was employed to critically evaluate the policies and legislations of both countries. Barriers faced by both countries in plastic recycling are outlined and recommendations are proposed to overcome those barriers on the domestic front. Two strategies proposed to be jointly developed by both countries are enhancement of extended producer responsibility (EPR) through a regional policy platform and collaboration in establishing joint Ecotowns.[GRAPHICS].

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