Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

ALL business premises and factories in Ipoh, Perak, will need to prepare adequate rubbish bins by the end of the year, says Ipoh mayor Datuk Rumaizi Baharin. He said Ipoh City Council (MBI) would ...