‘City of smoke’: how the West is poisoning Indonesia’s food chain

The Southeast Asian nation is burning mountains of imported plastic waste

Indonesia, Waste, pollution
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Indonesia’s finely balanced food chain is being poisoned by the burning of plastic waste shipped from Western countries.

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