TO GO WITH Environment-waste-Malaysia-China-Australia, FOCUS by Sam Reeves and Poornima Weerasekara
This picture taken on March 8, 2019 shows plastic waste near palm oil trees at an abandoned factory in Jenjarom, a district of Kuala Langat, outside Kuala Lumpur. - From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China's ban on accepting the world's used plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) / TO GO WITH Environment-waste-Malaysia-China-Australia, FOCUS by Sam Reeves and Poornima Weerasekara