KK Asia has opened a $6 million plastic bottle recycling plant, and is starting a buyback program for plastic containers.
Robin Loh, managing director of KK Asia, said: "Now we start this buy-back scheme to buy back all the household bottles which include shampoo bottles and mineral water bottles. We wash the bottle, crush the bottle and sort out all the different bottles. We recycle into raw material again and this raw material we recycle into garbage bags."
Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Environment and Water Resources, said: "Companies are coming out on their own, being very proactive. For example, KK Asia is launching the buy-back scheme. That means they are confident enough to collect waste and pay people for the waste, and make money out of it."
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