{"id":990158,"date":"2026-02-06T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990158"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:13:03","slug":"malaysia-bans-e-waste-imports-vows-to-end-illegal-dumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/malaysia-bans-e-waste-imports-vows-to-end-illegal-dumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia bans e-waste imports, vows to end illegal dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a &#8220;dumping ground&#8221; for the world&#8217;s waste. <\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that all electronic waste, commonly known as e-waste, would be reclassified under the &#8220;absolute prohibition&#8221; category effective immediately. This removes the discretionary power previously given to the Department of Environment to grant exemptions for importation of certain e-waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has announced an immediate and full ban on the importation of electronic waste, as the government vowed the country would not be a &#8220;dumping ground&#8221; for the world&#8217;s waste. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement late Wednesday that all electronic waste, commonly known as e-waste, would be reclassified under the &#8220;absolute prohibition&#8221; category effective immediately. This removes the discretionary power previously given to the Department of Environment to grant exemptions for importation of certain e-waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}