Around 400 containers with German plastic waste are rotting in the Turkish ports. The Turkish Ministry of the Environment wanted to send the garbage back. But that failed. Now some of the rubbish is on its way to Vietnam.

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NGOs demand a stronger ban on waste exports, a better alignment with waste treatment hierarchy and fairer shipments for reuse.

TerraCycle is facing increasing public scrutiny after being exposed for allegedly exporting its UK recycling waste to Bulgaria for incineration. The company claims the export resulted from a single human error and is now applying legal pressure against the investigative journalists for publishing their findings.

Through the Environment Act, the UK Government will set out to improve the UK’s air quality, restore natural habitats, increase biodiversity, reduce waste and ‘make better use of our resources’, the UK government says.

Breaking news – the Prime Minister is telling the truth! Can it be?!

Boris Johnson was all over the news last week after telling a room full of kids that recycling isn’t working. Some have said that he’s “losing the plot”… But believe it or not, we agree with the PM on this one.

The global consumer goods industry’s plans for dealing with the vast plastic waste it generates can be seen here in a landfill on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital, where a swarm of excavators tears into stinking mountains of garbage.

New draft European Commission rules may mean that UK recycled plastic shipments to the EU may not comply. According to a briefing document on the draft regulations produced by Plastics Recyclers Europe and seen by REB Market Intelligence, it believes that the UK would count as an OECD country and would be subject to tougher import rules than EU nations.

More than 60 non-governmental organizations and 36 members of the European Parliament have issued a manifest calling for a complete stop to the export of plastic waste from the EU. You call on the EU institutions to use the upcoming update of the EU Waste Shipment Regulation to introduce the export ban. The initiators of the call include the European Environment Bureau (EEB), the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (Nabu) and the US organization BAN (Basel Action Network).

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills into law Tuesday that are aimed at reducing plastic waste in the state, including one that will ban manufacturers from selling products with misleading recycling labels.

According to the plans of the EU Commission, companies that export waste from the EU will have to "assume additional responsibility" and demonstrate that their deliveries comply with all relevant regulations. This was announced by EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius last week in Brussels at an event organized by environmental organizations.

The warehouses in Ümraniye used by the recycling workers were raided by the municipal police and the municipal police. Two of the recycling workers who resisted were detained.

Spanish-owned paper recycling group Saica Natur has admitted in court to attempting to illegally send mixed waste to China and now faces an unlimited fine. As reported by the Daily Record newspaper, Saica Natur was seeking to export material that contained very high levels of contamination and breached international shipment regulations.

17 September 2021, Quezon City. The environmental health group EcoWaste Coalition renewed its call on the government and the industry to decisively act to solve the plasticization and toxification of the country and the planet due to unbridled plastics production, consumption and disposal.

South Africa recycles only 14% of its plastic waste – yet the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is opening up applications for plastic waste import, all in the name of saving the plastic industry. As if South Africa wasn’t struggling to deal with its own plastic, the country is opening up applications for importing plastic waste in order to meet the plastic industry’s needs, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) told Daily Maverick.

The measures taken by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization to prevent dirty imported waste were the subject of complaints. Adana Plastic Recycling Industries complained about the last 5 regulations of the ministry with newspaper advertisements. Ministry officials evaluated the complaints in the advertisement to Hürriyet: “Sorry, Europe's polluted waste will not enter our country, pollute our air, water and soil.”

High logistics costs continue to dog global trade while EU traders await the new rules over exports to non-OECD countries. Plastic scrap trade from the European Union to non-OECD countries remains subject to the temporary notification process.

PESHAWAR: Despite the tiring efforts of the federal government to reduce the use of plastic and protect the environment, its use has increased across the country and annual import has crossed 36,651 metric tons. The federal government has sought recommendations from all the provincial governments because of the continuous rise in plastic use and its environmental impacts.