Author: Mike Foley

Australia wants other countries to ban plastic waste exports and will push for a legally binding international treaty at the United Nations to limit the damage that the “ghostly walls of death” have on the marine environment.

Author: Gil Shochat

In October 2021, a Belgian environmental inspector opened a container at the port of Antwerp that, according to its manifest, was supposed to contain bales of mixed paper waste from Canada. It was one of 20 containers from the Saint-Michel recycling centre in Montreal that were destined for India.

Author(s): Middle East Eye staff

Non-recyclable plastic waste exported illegally from the UK and Germany to Turkey has exposed the city of Adana to toxic chemicals that cause cancer and other diseases in locals, Greenpeace said in a new report this week.

Author: Zoe Tidman

Toxic chemicals have been discovered at sites in Turkey where the UK has been dumping plastic waste. Greenpeace Mediterranean said it had discovered hazardous chemical pollutants and heavy metals at locations imported waste had been discarded and burned.

Author: Lioman Lima

For years, in the world of politics, Latin America has been considered "the US's backyard," its "zone of influence." Now, environmental groups in the region say that it has become something else: their dump.

Author: Conor McGlone

Revelations that a waste exporter contracted by Tesco and Sainsbury’s breached UK export regulations when it shipped waste to five sites in Turkey, as well as to Poland and the Netherlands, have prompted fierce criticism from green groups that are calling for greater transparency and stronger penalties for waste firms that break the rules.

Author: Chinedum Uwaegbulam

Nigeria, other West African countries, face very significant trafficking in electronic and vehicle waste into their countries. This trafficking acts as a carrier of plastic soon-to-be waste imports, as most electronic and electric products, according to Tom Gammage, Ocean Campaigner, London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

Author: Tino Oldani

The government and the judiciary of Tunisia are forcing Italy to take back about six thousand tons of highly harmful waste, illegally exported to the North African country. The cost of the operation will be borne by the Campania region, governed by Vincenzo De Luca, whose administration had authorized a Campania company to export waste, without carrying out adequate checks.

Author: Chantal Lavigne

Despite increasingly stringent international restrictions, Canadian companies export paper to poor countries whose contamination by polluting waste greatly exceeds the standards. An Investigation team unearths the murky world of the recyclables trade and has followed their tracks from your bin to India.

Author: Gokhan Kam

Bureaucracy continues to take back the dirty waste, which amounted to 400 containers in the first stage, sent from Germany to Turkey. Germany has decided to take the waste but is still 'investigation'. Some of the waste was sent to Turkey, some to Greece, and some to Vietnam.

Author: Rubens Valente

On July 26, 2021, at 3:30 pm, a message reached the internal communication system of the headquarters of Ibama (Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), in São Paulo. "Some paper mills are importing waste paper from selective collection of residential origin," the message read. "This import is prohibited."

Author: Rubens Valente

Jaepel's lawyers state, in a petition filed in a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Santos that discusses the destination of US containers, that these shipments became necessary due to the interruption in the supply of recyclable paper from commercial and industrial establishments and the decrease in collection of recyclables during the pandemic.

Author: Louis Gore-Langton

Turkey’s population is largely unaware that the country is being used as a dumping ground for the world’s plastic waste, according to new research by Microplastic Research Group (MRG).