Tiny E.Timor to become world's first plastic-neutral nation

MAY 17, 2019 / 1:00 AM / UPDATED 19 HOURS AGO
Tiny E.Timor to become world's first plastic-neutral nation
Michael Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a region where seas are awash with trash, East Timor is set to become the world’s first country to recycle all its plastic waste after it teamed up with Australian researchers on Friday to build a revolutionary recycling plant.

The $40-million plant will ensure that no plastic, once used in the Southeast Asian nation, would become waste, but would instead be turned into new products.

Dili said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Australia’s Mura Technology to establish a non-profit called RESPECT that will run the plastic recycling plant, expected to launch by the end of 2020.

“This is a small country where we can make a statement - making the whole country the first to be plastic neutral, in a region where there is the largest pollution of marine life,” said Thomas Maschmeyer, co-inventor of the recycling technology to be used in the new plant.

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