Author: Isabella Kaminski
A series of lawsuits against plastic producers and governments is expected after a “historic” international agreement on waste, say legal experts. Last week, world leaders agreed to draw up a legally binding treaty over the next two years that covered the full lifecycle of plastics from production to disposal.
Read MoreAuthor: Mia Rabson
OTTAWA -- In the year since new rules to slow global exports of plastic waste took effect, Canada's shipments rose by more than 13 per cent, and most of it is going to the United States with no knowledge of where it ultimately ends up.
Read MoreAuthor: Jared Paben
U.S. scrap plastic exports fell by 12% in 2021, even though some countries, such as India and Mexico, brought in a whole lot more material. The U.S. exported 1.21 billion pounds of scrap plastics in 2021, down from 1.38 billion pounds the year before, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau export data.
Read MoreAuthor: Hiroko Tabuchi
With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed on Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive growth of plastic pollution. The agreement commits nations to work on a broad and legally binding treaty that would not only aim to improve recycling and clean up the world’s plastic waste, but would encompass curbs on plastics production itself. That could put measures like a ban on single-use plastics, a major driver of waste, on the table.
Read MoreAuthor(s): Joe Brock and Kanupriya Kapoor
Australia will allow plastic trash to be shipped overseas and burned as fuel under a law introduced last year that banned the export of some plastic waste, the environment minister's office said, prompting accusations from critics of hypocrisy.
Read MoreAuthor: Jun Concepcion
Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk, MSC, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Evergreen and Cosco have been cited among the largest shippers of plastic waste. Green groups have called on shipping lines to completely stop plastic waste exports as they cause environmental and social harm to receiving countries.
Read MoreAuthor: Arab News
A huge dump of illegal rubbish has been trucked from the Italian port city of Salerno to Persano, a rural village next to a nature sanctuary, after it was returned by Tunisian authorities following a two-year feud over who should deal with it.
Read MoreAuthor: Sophie Gorman
Tunisia was victorious this weekend in a protracted David versus Goliath rubbish battle against Italy. On Saturday, a consignment of 7,900 tonnes of toxic waste illegally sent by Italy to Tunisia was sent back where it came from after an almost two-year legal wrangle spearheaded by small local environmental NGOs.
Read MoreAuthor: Middle East Monitor
The Tunisian Ministry of Environment said, on Monday, that it had signed an agreement with Italy to return illegally imported toxic waste. A Tunisian company had imported more than 280 containers of waste illegally from Italy in 2020 and falsely claimed that the household waste – barred from import under Tunisia law – was, in fact, plastic scrap to be recycled.
Read MoreAuthor: Dulce Olvera
At the same time that the United States government preaches clean energy and sanctions for illegal fishing, it has turned Mexico into its main plastic garbage can in Latin America after the difficulty of exporting it to Asia due to the pandemic and the restriction of China.
Read MoreAuthor: DeAnne Toto
Rodolphe Saadé, chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, headquartered in France, has announced that the shipping line will no longer transport plastic scrap aboard its ships beginning June 1. He made the announcement during the One Ocean Summit organized by France’s President Emmanuel Macron, which was Feb. 9-11.
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Read MoreAuthor: 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.
Read MoreIn response to the call made by the Basel Action Network (BAN), The Last Beach Cleanup and 50 other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their Global Shipping Lines Campaign, the world's 3rd largest Shipping Line's Chairman and CEO Rodolphe Saadé announced last week that effective June 1st of 2022 it will no longer be allowing its ships to transport plastic waste.
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