The Malaysian government has returned 11 shipping containers of plastic garbage back to Canada as the country takes a hard stand to keep illegal foreign waste from its shores. The country has returned a total of 150 containers of garbage, mostly plastic waste that cannot be recycled, back to 13 countries, including Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Japan. Malaysia did not pay for any of the garbage to be returned, rather the cost was covered by either the exporters or the shipping companies involved. Canadian authorities have not said whether the federal government bore any of the cost for the Malaysian shipments.
