In 2022 alone, the world created 68.3 million short tons (62 million metric tons) of e-waste. This trade continues despite the Basel Convention, an international treaty established to regulate the transport and trade of hazardous waste. Here in Malaysia, local scrapyards and informal dumps process the materials, in many cases with little to no environmental oversight. “The US is therefore, shamefully, under no obligation to do anything about the e-waste trafficking from the US to Malaysia. He added that before the import ban, local recyclers who complied with environmental regulations were at a disadvantage when competing against rivals working with imports.