Muck, bucks and impunity
Monday 28th December, 2020 Stinking landfills and waste imports are likely to earn Sri Lanka, which was once known as ‘the Granary of the East’, the epithet of ‘Garbage Dump of the East’. An investigation is reportedly underway into the importation of 28 shipping containers of agricultural waste from Ukraine. The waste arrived here, the other day, in the guise of a consignment of coriander seeds. One of the companies that imported the foreign garbage has claimed that it has been cheated; it says it ordered coriander seeds but received agricultural waste instead. This sounds a tall tal...
Source: island.lk