Author: DAILY SABAH
Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum denied Thursday the Bloomberg report on alleged plastic waste import from the United Kingdom to Turkey.
Read MoreAuthor: Jacob Koshy
After banning the import of plastic waste in 2019, the Environment Ministry has permitted PET Bottles, as plastic waste, to be imported for processing. The decision to rollback the ban was taken last year after representations by several industries in the business of processing waste said there was too little waste available for them in India and this was causing them financial losses.
Read MoreAuthor(s): Kit Chellel and Wojciech Moskwa
When the British supermarket chain Tesco Plc first started collecting plastic bags and wrappers from customers to be recycled in March 2021, Caroline Ragueneau was thrilled. She was working as a retail assistant at a Tesco store in southwest England when the first white deposit boxes appeared, promising to turn what’s typically discarded back into something useful.
Read MoreAuthor: Anand Chandrasekhar
Switzerland is pushing to modify an international accord so that all electric and electronic waste shipped abroad gets prior consent from destination countries. Not everyone is on board.
Read MoreAuthor: Conor McGlone
Waste industry leaders have joined with environmental campaigners to call for a ban on the export of plastic waste that goes further than the government’s current proposals. Representatives from the UK waste industry this week told a cross-party group of MPs that any ban should be global – and not just cover non-OECD countries as proposed by Defra.
Read MoreAuthor: Mark Smulian
Environmental Services Association (ESA) executive director Jacob Hayler has put a five-point plan to MPs to curb plastic waste exports.
Read MoreAuthor: Emma Gatten, Environment Editor
Only around 5 per cent of recycling exports are checked before they leave the country, making it easy for criminals to dump waste abroad, MPs have been told.
Read MoreAuthor: Brandon How
The government’s recycling development fund will receive a $60 million boost in the federal budget, with the national science agency to also launch a plastics recycling research program.
Read MoreAuthor: Frederik Timm Bensten
Recently, the world's third largest container shipping company CMA CGM announced that from 1 June 2022, it will no longer ship plastic waste on its ships. That example should Maersk follow, according to Plastic Change.
Read MoreAuthor: 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.
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