By: The Daily Sun, Staff Correspondent
Publish: Thursday, 11 February, 2021 18:00
Huge transboundary movements and trading of illegal plastic waste into Bangladesh is hampering the ecosystem of Bay of Bengal and ultimately the sustainable development of the country…
Read MoreJun 26, 2025 at 07:17 PM PDT
Karah Rucker (Anchor/News Reporter)
Malaysia says a ban on plastic waste imports from the United States will begin on Tuesday, July 1. That could create problems for California, which sends much of its plastic waste overseas.
The ban starts next week because the U.S. has failed to ratify the Basel Convention, Malaysia said. It’s one of only a few countries to do so.
Read MorePublished Jun 26, 2025 3:07 PM by The Maritime Executive
The long-awaited Hong Kong International Convention setting standards for the industry to dismantle end-of-life vessels has gone into force. It comes, however, amidst criticism that the agreement fails to address many key issues in safety and sustainability, and the concerns of beaching in ship recycling.
Read MorePublished: June 26, 2025
Updated: June 26, 2025
by Colin Staub
The Malaysian government recently published regulations indicating the country will stop all U.S.-sourced imports of scrap plastic, including e-plastics from electronics, on July 1. Reports from plastic traders indicate the flow of scrap plastic into Malaysia has already slowed.
Read MorePosted by Chris Voloschuk, Associate Editor
Published June 26, 2025
On July 1, imports of all plastic scrap will be prohibited from entering Malaysia.
Read MoreOn July 1, imports of all plastic waste will be prohibited from entering Malaysia, a country that currently receives more plastic waste from rich developed countries than any other non-OECD country.
Read More12 June 2025. Seattle, WA, USA. Nice, France. At this week’s United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, some of the world’s largest shipping lines are touting their environmental credentials while continuing to be key facilitators of the global dumping of plastic waste on developing countries.
Read MoreThe European Commission has added shredded battery waste, known as ‘black mass’ to its list of hazardous waste materials.
Read MoreFMT takes a closer look into e-waste, why some are concerned, and what others see as potential benefits.
Read MoreOver 80 acres of land that the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC) salvaged after the demolition of the Agbogbloshie scrapyard and the Onion Market four years ago are under siege.
Read MoreSeattle, USA, Durres, Albania. October 21, 2024. An estimated 2,100 total metric tonnes of suspected hazardous waste packed in 102 containers are expected to be returned to their country of origin, Albania, on October 27th, 2024, via the Italian port of Gioia Tauro after having sailed all the way to Singapore on their intended pathway to Thailand.
Read MoreSeattle, Washington, USA. The planned sale by Washington State Ferries (WSF) of two ex-ferries, the Elwha and Klahowya, to an Ecuadorian steel mill has been halted in part over revelations that the foreign crew of the tugboat that would have pulled the ships to Ecuador suffered poor conditions, which came to light only after the crew had difficulty
conducting the towing operation about one month ago.
Read MoreSeattle, USA, Bangkok, Thailand, Cape Town, South Africa. A large Maersk container ship, carrying an estimated 327 tonnes of what is believed to be hazardous waste containers scheduled to dock in Cape Town, South Africa, has disappeared following a warning to the South African government by the international watchdog group, the Basel Action Network (BAN).
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The Basel Action Network (BAN), the organization that first exposed the global dumping of electronic wastes in China (2002) and Africa (2005), and continues to campaign against the highly polluting and dangerous dumping for "recycling" due to waste exports from rich, developed countries, has launched an online whistleblowers portal.
Read MoreMalaysia has seized 106 containers of dangerous electronic waste over the last three months and busted an illegal waste import syndicate after a tip-off from a watchdog group, a minister said
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