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‘The more you dig into the recycling of plastic, you realize that it’s really a sham,’ an international waste trade expert tells senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle
In Myanmar, north of Yangon in Shwepyithar, nothing is growing faster than garbage.
Shwepyithar township, a part of Myanmar's Yangon, has seen an alarming increase in dumped plastic waste, especially from the West.
Canada is part of an international treaty to prevent the dumping of plastic waste in developing countries.
On the northern fringe of Myanmar's largest city is a township of nearly 300,000 people with a growing industrial base in textiles, consumer goods and food products. But north of Yangon in Shwepyithar nothing is growing faster than garbage. And a lot of it isn't even theirs.