A dog surrounded by trash in Chiangmai, Thailand. Plastic waste imports into Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam jumped from mid-2017 to early 2018, leading to illegal operations dumping and open-burning. The top exporters of plastic waste analyzed for the report included the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan.

First published in the April 23, 2019, 9:14 p.m. edition

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