Some 110 containers of electric arc furnace dust, that includes metals like zinc, cadmium and lead, illegally entered Malaysia.
Malaysia says 110 containers of hazardous heavy metals have been found abandoned at a port.
Some 1,864 tonnes of electric arc furnace dust , a by-product of steel production that contains heavy metals like zinc, cadmium and lead, were found to have illegally entered the country.Officials said the containers came from Romania and were bound for Indonesia when they were abandoned last month at the Tanjung Pelepas port in the southern state of Johor.
The EAFD, classified as toxic waste under the convention, had been listed as concentrated zinc in declaration forms, he said.
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