Illegal plastic waste affects Bay of Bengal ecosystem

Source: https://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/535292/budget2025-2026

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…

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Malaysia to ban US plastic waste, leaving California in a bind

Source: https://san.com/cc/malaysia-to-ban-us-plastic-waste-leaving-california-in-a-bind/

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Jun 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.

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Ship Recycling Convention Enters into Force with Uncertainty and Criticism

Source: https://maritime-executive.com/article/ship-recycling-convention-enters-into-force-with-uncertainty-and-criticism

Published 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.

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Malaysia to fully halt US e-plastic imports

Source: https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2025/06/26/malaysia-to-fully-halt-us-e-plastic-imports/

Published: 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.

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Shipping Lines Need to Join CMA CGM in Refusing to Carry Plastic Waste to Developing Countries

Source: https://conta.cc/44cd907

12 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.

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New Whistleblower Program to Halt Illegal and Improper Waste Exports and Management

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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

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Massive e-Waste Seizure in Malaysia Follows Tip-Off from Global Waste Watchdog Group

Source: https://conta.cc/3VFGIBV

After receiving detailed alerts by the Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN), a global watchdog group working to prevent the dumping of toxic wastes by rich industrialized countries on developing countries, the Malaysian government announced yesterday that they detained 301 of the 453 intermodal containers BAN had identified in their alerts. Of these, 106 were found to contain illegal electronic waste (e-waste).

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Plastic recycling plants receiving exported waste are microplastic factories, experts say

Source: https://conta.cc/3XJT2E1

On January 1, 2021, the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments, meant to curtail and control the dumping of plastic waste in developing countries, took effect. More than three years on, we are seeing little real progress in reducing plastic waste trade or addressing unsustainable waste recycling.

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Tracing the Path of Greece’s Plastic Waste

Source: https://wearesolomon.com/mag/format/investigation/tracing-the-path-of-greeces-plastic-waste/

Authors: Alexandros Avramidis, Alexia Kalaitzi, Giorgos Christides

In collaboration with Greenpeace Greece and Basel Action Network, we put trackers on plastic waste from recycle bins and followed their path. Some turned up in landfills, while some was exported to the Balkans. In the end, many of the myths surrounding recycling were dispelled.

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Malaysia’s plastics problem

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/focus/2024/04/14/malaysias-plastics-problem

Author: Lester Kong

PLASTIC pollution continues to plague Malaysia like a difficult-to-quit but easy-to-access opioid. It is still a convenient utility without compare, which leads to microplastics in the ecosystem – including in our food – and illegal dumping that clogs urban drainage and sparks flash floods. But an outright ban on plastics might not be a viable long-term solution either.

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Recycling of plastic ‘a deception’

Source: https://recyclinginternational.com/business/business-news/recycling-of-plastic-a-deception/56831/

Author: Robin Latchem

In ‘The Plastic Recycling Deception’, PT sets out practices it claims are deceptive employed by the plastic industry. It urges stakeholders to re-evaluate their approach to plastic waste management. For years, it insists, the plastic industry has promoted recycling as the solution to the world’s plastic pollution crisis. However, the report highlights that 91% of plastic is not recycled. The use of resin identification codes, often mistaken for recycling symbols, has further misled policymakers, regulators and consumers into believing in the circularity of plastic, it alleges.

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‘Waste colonialism’ in Malaysia due to massive imports of plastic waste from Japan

Source: https://aliran.com/civil-society-voices/waste-colonialism-in-malaysia-due-to-massive-imports-of-plastic-waste-from-japan

Author: Aliran

On 4 April, the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) launched its latest report, “Ending waste colonialism, governing plastic pollution: Japan’s opportunity to lead Asia out of the plastic crisis”. The report highlighted waste colonialism in Malaysia caused by massive imports of Japan’s plastic waste. Since China banned solid waste imports in 2018, Malaysia has emerged as a global hub for plastic waste exports, with Japan being the leading nation exporting plastic waste to Malaysia.

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