{"id":931,"date":"2019-05-29T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=931"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T00:25:39","slug":"since-when-we-become-the-dumping-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/since-when-we-become-the-dumping-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Since when we become the dumping ground &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">It has been more than a year since I watched Malaysian TV channels (yup, I am not purposely avoid watching any of the channels, it is just that somehow the coverage at my area receives Singapore based channels better than the local ones).\u00a0 I was shocked to watch the news clip about Malaysian is being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7077295\/Malaysia-send-3-000-tonnes-plastic-waste-countries-origin.html\">dumping ground<\/a> of non-recyclable waste of developing countries.\u00a0 This is a classic example of &#8220;bullying&#8221; at global level.\u00a0 It is kind of ironic when the same countries propagate global warming issues, sustainability and such and yet, they &#8220;dispose&#8221; their garbage at another countries like Malaysia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-47901709\">Philippines<\/a>,\u00a0 and who-knows-what other countries might be the victims here.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Is it ethical?\u00a0 Is it morally right?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than a year since I watched Malaysian TV channels (yup, I am not purposely avoid watching any of the channels, it is just that somehow the coverage at my area receives Singapore based channels better than the local ones).\u00a0 I was shocked to watch the news clip about Malaysian is being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/since-when-we-become-the-dumping-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Since when we become the dumping ground &#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}