Author: Frankfurter Allgemeine, translated from German
According to statistics , German plastic waste exports to Asia increased by almost half last year. In 2023, around 158,000 tons of plastic waste were shipped from the Federal Republic to Asia, around 51,000 tons more than a year earlier, the waste disposal association BDE said in response to a dpa request. The information is an estimate: official statistics are available for the first ten months of 2023, and an association projection for the last two.