Emirates Shipping Line Joins Growing Push to End Plastic Waste Trade→
/Carrier becomes second ocean carrier to halt plastic waste shipments following sustained advocacy from Basel Action Network
Read MoreIndonesia Flooded with Electronic Wastes from the US; 822 Suspect Containers Detained in Batam→
/Seattle, WA. 16 December 2025. New reports from Indonesian media and customs officials describe a rapidly growing number of 40-ft sea-going containers piling up after being seized and held in Indonesia’s Batu Ampar port in Batam.
Read MoreBrokers of Shame→
/Brokers of Shame
Today, the Basel Action Network (BAN), released a new investigative report, “Brokers of Shame: The New Tsunami of American e-Waste Exports to Asia”, documenting how a group of large U.S brokers appear to be facilitating what BAN estimates to be a billion-dollar trade in exporting electronic waste to developing countries.
Read MoreShipping Lines Need to Join CMA CGM in Refusing to Carry Plastic Waste to Developing Countries →
/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.
Read MoreOp-Ed: Food Industry Giants Must Fix Their Plastic Pollution→
/Author: Ashka Naik
Plastic has allowed many food industry giants to become the massive entities they are today. For example, Coca-Cola generates 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year; PepsiCo has been found to use nearly 2.3 billion tons of plastic each year for its bottles and packaging; and McDonald’s has been called out for generating the weight of “100 Eiffel Towers” worth of packaging waste.
Read MoreWill the death ship São Paulo sink into the Atlantic?→
/Author: Ramis Sağlam, translated from Turkish
Former Brazilian Aircraft Carrier São Paulo, which contains hazardous toxic waste materials, was captured by the Brazilian navy on Friday. The Brazilian navy made an official statement, claiming that the ship should be moved to the open sea as much as possible. This statement said, “Will the ship be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean?” raised the question.
Read MoreBrazilian Navy Suddenly Seizes its Old Warship Forcing it to Sea→
/Brussels, Belgium. Jan 21, 2023. The former Brazilian Aircraft Carrier named SÃO PAULO, laden with asbestos, PCBs and other toxic waste materials, was seized on Friday and forced out to sea by the Brazilian Navy claiming in an official notice yesterday the move had to be done as the vessel was supposedly in imminent danger of running aground or sinking off the Brazilian coast. Green groups that have been closely following the saga of the SÃO PAULO were shocked over this move and are not convinced by the Navy's sudden rationale that the ship poses an imminent danger.
Read MoreBrazil Refuses to Allow its Own Toxic Aircraft Carrier to Dock→
/Brussels, Belgium. January 19, 2023. Three months after its return to Brazil, from an aborted voyage to Turkey, the toxic aircraft carrier SÃO PAULO continues to be towed in circles off the coast of Pernambuco state, Brazil, with no plan or effort by the Brazilian Environment Agency (IBAMA) or Brazilian Navy to provide the vessel a safe mooring place. This failure to act comes after a Salvage Master inspector declared the ship is taking on water and needs repair and the owners of the ship threatened to abandon the vessel.
Read MorePolluting shipbreaking practices threaten Ghanian shores→
/Author: NGO Shipbreaking Platform
In light of the recent infrastructure developments taking place at its main ports of Tema and Takoradi, Ghana is aiming to become the main integrated maritime hub of the west African subregion. Yet, certain unregulated practices, such as the demolition of end-of -life vessels, still represent a threat for the ecosystem and the health of the quarter of the country's population that lives along the coast.
Read MoreEnvironmental Groups Claim that New Rules Restricting Plastic Trade are being Ignored→
/Geneva, Switzerland (June 14, 2022) – At the ongoing meeting of the Basel Convention, the Basel Action Network (BAN) and member organizations of the Break Free from Plastic movement (BFFP) in a side event, presented evidence of continued plastic waste trade, that is exported primarily from the rich developed countries to weaker economies, and charged these exporting countries with failing to uphold the agreements to control plastic waste exports made at the Basel Convention in 2019, which came into force on January 1, 2021.
Read MoreCOSCO Shipping Line Called Upon to Stop Illegal and Harmful Exports of Plastic Waste→
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Following the seizure of 37 containers of German plastic waste from the COSCO ship COSCO PRIDE in Piraeus Greece late last year, 52 non-governmental organizations have sent a letter to the Chairman of COSCO Global to stop their exports of plastic waste, in particular to developing countries.
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