Malaysia’s tyre recycling sector remains unregulated despite a white paper from 2012 proposing an EPR scheme to clamp down on illegal tyre recycling operations.
The most highly publicised incident was the contamination of Sig Kim Kim where pyrolysis char was dumped into the watercourse.
There have been various incidents since, some involving fraud, some open burning of tyres – burning waste is apparently commonplace even in domestic premises in parts of Malaysia.
However, the latest to hit the newspapers took place in Jalan Kluang, where an operator had collected tyres for his...
