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Waste colonialism is alive in Southeast Asia

Summary by dialogue.earth
In August 2025, Malaysian campaigner Wong Pui Yi stood outside the UN headquarters in Geneva and made an appeal to Global North nations: “Stop treating the Global South as the rubbish bin for plastic waste you cannot handle.” During that meeting, representatives from 184 countries failed to reach an agreement on a treaty to end plastic pollution. But the need for one has not gone away, particularly for Southeast Asian nations. The region became …
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dialogue.earth broke the news in on Friday, March 27, 2026.
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