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      <image:caption>Container Ship COSCO PRIDE, which arrived in Piraeus early the morning of November 30. It was to be loaded on December 1 with 37 containers of German Plastic Waste for Vietnam. This re-export was blocked following a warning by environmental groups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In May, Greenpeace investigators found plastic packaging from UK, German and global food and drinks brands and supermarkets dumped in Adana, Turkey. Photograph: Caner Ozkan/Greenpeace/PA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Plastic waste found by Greenpeace in Adana province in Turkey. Photograph: Caner Ozkan/Greenpeace/PA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Saleng protestors demand an end to imports of plastic waste outside the Thai Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Second-generation saleng Nathida Rerkyanyong sorts cardboard at her home before taking it to sell at a local recycling centre (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nathida waits her turn at the recycling centre to weigh the materials she has delivered (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Saleng protestors wait on the steps of the Ministry of Industry for an official to come out and receive their petition (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Waste recycling in Thailand has long formed its own circular economy. This small business buys in electronic waste collected by saleng and extracts valuable metals such as copper, which can be sold on to large manufacturers that make new products. (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Without the saleng, rubbish would quickly pile up on Thailand’s streets, and valuable materials go to waste (Image: Luke Duggleby / China Dialogue)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The container ship Cosco Pride was to transport the German plastic waste from Greece to Vietnam.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Container Ship COSCO PRIDE, which arrived in Piraeus early the morning of November 30. It was to be loaded on December 1 with 37 containers of German Plastic Waste for Vietnam. This re-export was blocked today following a warning by environmental groups.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Container Ship COSCO PRIDE, which arrived in Piraeus early the morning of November 30. It was to be loaded on December 1 with 37 containers of German Plastic Waste for Vietnam. This re-export was blocked today following a warning by environmental groups.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - From Germany to Turkey and Vietnam - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Time and again, plastic waste is so contaminated that it cannot be recycled. Then the countries of origin have to take back the garbage. But in practice it is not that easy. Image: imago images</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/11/17/eu-waste-shipment-regulation-falls-short-of-fixing-europes-waste-export-crisis</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/2/the-circular-shadows-terracycle-applies-legal-pressure-against-journalists-amid-bulgarian-incineration-expos</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The circular shadows: TerraCycle applies legal pressure against journalists amid Bulgarian incineration exposé - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Investigators found 30 bales of UK Terracycle waste awaiting incineration in Bulgaria.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The circular shadows: TerraCycle applies legal pressure against journalists amid Bulgarian incineration exposé - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>TerraCycle are claiming the waste ended up in Bulgaria due to human error and has now been returned and recycled in the UK.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The circular shadows: TerraCycle applies legal pressure against journalists amid Bulgarian incineration exposé - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Investigators say they will not be hindered by attempts to censor their findings.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/11/18/germany-now-a-net-exporter-of-substitute-fuels</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-11-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Germany now a net exporter of substitute fuels - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Germany's exports of substitute fuels will reach a new high in 2020.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/11/18/report-trafficking-of-plastic-waste-is-on-the-rise-and-criminal-groups-are-profiting</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-11-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Report: Trafficking of plastic waste is on the rise and criminal groups are profiting - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>© (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times) Plastic litter fills a vacant field in Navotas, a suburb of Manila. (Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/2/six-reasons-why-boris-johnson-is-right-about-recycling</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-02</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/2/trash-and-burn-big-brands-new-plastic-waste-plan</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/10/11/time-to-ratify-basel-ban-on-toxic-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-10-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Time to ratify Basel ban on toxic waste - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This 2018 photo shows police inspecting a shipment of hazardous waste at Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri. Wichan Charoenkiatpakul.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/10/11/uk-recycled-plastic-shipments-to-eu-may-not-comply-under-draft-european-commission-rules</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-10-11</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/6/environmental-organizations-are-calling-for-a-complete-stop-to-the-export-of-plastic-waste-from-the-eu</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environmental organizations are calling for a complete stop to the export of plastic waste from the EU - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Environmental associations: Plastic waste exports have no place in a real circular economy.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/6/gov-newsom-signs-several-plastic-pollution-reduction-bills</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Gov. Newsom signs several plastic pollution reduction bills - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>This June 6, 2018, photo provided by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) and the California Department of Justice shows hundreds of pounds of revenue recyclables seized at a checkpoint in Barstow, Calif. (California Department of Justice/CalRecycle via AP)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/6/sinkeviius-announces-restrictions-on-cross-border-waste-shipments</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Sinkevičius announces restrictions on cross-border waste shipments - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/10/12/recycling-warehouses-raided-in-mraniye-workers-resisted</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-10-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>WALL - Ümraniye Municipality municipal police and riot police raided the warehouses used by recycling workers in Ümraniye, Istanbul.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Police teams came to the area where the warehouses are located and asked questions such as "Do you have a license, do you have a permit?" and said, "You cannot work without a license, we will seize these places."</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dozens of riot police came to the recycling warehouse in Esenkent after the workers who resisted the confiscation of their warehouses against the police.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The workers continued their resistance against the police. According to the news in Evrensel newspaper, at least two recycling workers were detained during the police intervention with tear gas and rubber bullets.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>DHA announced that the firefighters who came to the scene responded to the fire.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The wait of the police, who was stated to have opened fire in the air to disperse the workers, continues. (NEWS CENTER)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Recycling warehouses raided in Ümraniye: Workers resisted - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/10/4/european-firms-face-near-total-ban-on-waste-exports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-10-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - European firms face near total ban on waste exports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A dragon spews plastic outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. The EU executive has promised to crack down on plastic waste exports. Photo: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/27/right-to-repair-advocates-see-biden-support-and-consumer-frustration-leading-to-more-legislative-action</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-27</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/27/saica-natur-facing-unlimited-fine-for-sending-illegal-waste-to-china-from-scotland</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Saica Natur facing unlimited fine for sending illegal waste to China from Scotland - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The SAICA Natur mill in Partington, Manchester</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/21/manufacturers-should-also-finance-the-collection-of-exported-used-equipment</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Manufacturers should also finance the collection of exported used equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>It is estimated that around 50 million used devices are exported from the EU every year .</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/20/toxics-watchdog-group-backs-human-rights-based-approach-to-address-plastic-pollution-crisis</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-20</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/16/south-africa-to-import-plastic-waste-to-meet-the-needs-of-the-industry</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - South Africa to import plastic waste ‘to meet the needs of the industry’ - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Recyclers walk among their recycled plastic collection, Pretoria, South Africa, on 27 May 2020. (Photo: EPA-EFE / KIM LUDBROOK)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/20/poland-wants-to-take-stronger-action-against-environmental-crime</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Poland wants to take stronger action against environmental crime - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Polish Secretary of State for the Environment, Jacek Ozdoba, presented the control action last week.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/13/europes-dirty-waste-will-not-enter-turkey</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/8/wait-goes-on-for-basel-shipping-reg-changes</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/7/plastic-use-skyrockets-as-imports-surge-to-over-36mt</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/2/ferry-owners-accused-of-illegal-ship-breaking</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-02</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/6/sd-lawmakers-bill-to-reclassify-exported-plastic-recycling-passed-by-assembly</loc>
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      <image:caption>A San Diego recycling bin. File photo</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/7/romania-to-face-up-to-illegal-waste-trafficking-problem</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/13/government-must-ban-imports-of-plastic-scrap</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-13</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Members of civic groups submit a petition to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, asking for a ban on imported plastic scrap. (Photo courtesy: EARTH)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/25/anti-hazardous-waste-network-calls-for-an-immediate-end-of-plastic-waste-import</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Anti-hazardous Waste Network Calls for an Immediate End of Plastic Waste Import - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Recycling workers join the group in protest against the extended plastic waste import. Credit: EARTH Thailand</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Anti-hazardous Waste Network Calls for an Immediate End of Plastic Waste Import - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Credit: EARTH Thailand/ Karnt Thassanaphak</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/25/lawsuit-seeks-to-regulate-plastic-as-hazardous-waste-widely-used-pvc-plastic-harms-public-health-environment</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/16/port-klang-plastic-recycling-factory-razed-in-wednesday-aug-11-night-fire</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-16</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/10/new-zealand-exporting-plastic-waste-to-developing-nations-at-an-alarming-rate</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-10</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/plastic-waste-and-the-recycling-myth</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Plastic waste and the recycling myth - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tonnes of microplastic granules from a burning container ship have inundated Sri Lanka's west coast - Copyright AFP LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/plastic-waste-imports-are-unwanted</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Plastic waste imports are 'unwanted' - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Officials inspect smuggled plastic waste in the cargo container imported from the United States, in Lat Krabang district of Bangkok in 2018. (Police photo)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/this-company-claims-to-help-the-worlds-biggest-corporations-recycle-activists-say-its-greenwashing</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Plastic waste washes ashore in Panama City. Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/7/illegal-waste-disposal-to-poland-authority-identifies-more-than-30-locations</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Illegal waste disposal to Poland: Authority identifies more than 30 locations - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Poland wants to take an even stronger stand against illegal waste imports in the future .</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/waste-not-want-not</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Waste not, want not - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thailand has enough of its own e-waste to handle that it doesn't need to import waste from other countries, environmental groups say. Photo: Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/3/reduce-plastic-production-to-help-southeast-asia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Waste pickers in the village of Bangun on the Indonesian island of Java collect plastic scraps and paper to take to a local factory, where it is burned as fuel (Image © Fully Handoko / Ecoton)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/2/import-waste-mitigation-only-does-so-much-calls-grow-for-total-ban</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Import waste mitigation only does so much, calls grow for total ban - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>SAM president Meenakshi Raman says imported waste is often highly contaminated and not recyclable. – Fossil Free University pic, August 1, 2021</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/2/defra-updates-plastic-waste-export-rules-to-non-oecd-countries</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Defra updates plastic waste export rules to non-OECD countries - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Defra wrote to stakeholders about the change in legislation, which was effective from 29 July</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Defra updates plastic waste export rules to non-OECD countries - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Defra’s communication listed a string of countries and how the new regulations would impact them for green list plastic exports</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/7/polands-waste-blame-game</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-12-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Poland’s waste blame game - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A 2017 image of an abandoned quarry near Hrubieszow, Poland, where municipal waste was allegedly illegally dumped | Wojciech Pacewicz/EFE via EPA</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/44m-kilos-of-fertilizer-from-south-korea-shipped-to-philippine-landfill</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - 44M kilos of fertilizer from South Korea shipped to Philippine landfill - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>'UNUTILIZED.' Weeds grow on a mountain of ‘CMP inorganic fertilizer’ sitting on the mining area of Marcventures Mining and Development Corporation in Surigal del Sur since late 2019. Photo taken in June 2021 courtesy of Rep. Prospero Pichay.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/terracycle-and-brands-sued-over-recycling-claims</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - TerraCycle and brands sued over recycling claims - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The lawsuit alleges TerraCycle is enabling brand owners to mislead the public on the recyclability of their products. | photo_gonzo / Shutterstock</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/28/cop26-from-packaging-to-milk-cartons-how-the-uks-paper-waste-exports-present-a-hidden-climate-threat</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - COP26: From packaging to milk cartons, how the UK’s paper waste exports present a hidden climate threat - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Paper waste exported to India poses a hidden climate threat (Photo: Approach to Policy Framework for Import of Wastepaper: report of the Expert Working Group)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - COP26: From packaging to milk cartons, how the UK’s paper waste exports present a hidden climate threat - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Food packaging and milk cartons often contain plastic piece or film that is incinerated or dumped in landfill (Photo: Approach to Policy Framework for Import of Wastepaper: report of the Expert Working Group)</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1627510205224-SC57KK792OU5WFZZXXXF/PRI_191562956.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - COP26: From packaging to milk cartons, how the UK’s paper waste exports present a hidden climate threat - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Often the paper is processed in countries like India and then exported to China, which turns it into packaging and re-exports to the West (Photo: Approach to Policy Framework for Import of Wastepaper: report of the Expert Working Group)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/27/biffa-found-guilty-in-mixed-paper-exports-case</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Biffa found guilty in ‘mixed paper’ exports case - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Biffa was found guilty by a majority of 10 to 1</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/21/toxic-waste-rebranded-australia-bans-third-world-dumping-leaves-giant-toxic-loophole</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Toxic Waste Rebranded: Australia bans Third World dumping, leaves giant toxic loophole - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic Smelter. Illustration by Alex Anstey</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/27/plan-for-the-ban-plastics-classified-as-toxic-substance-under-canadian-environmental-protection-act</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-27</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/19/indonesia-to-allow-waste-imports-with-2-contamination-limit</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-19</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/19/turkey-tightening-rules-around-domestic-recyclers</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-19</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Turkey is developing its plastics recycling infrastructure; pictured is a bottle collection point in Manavgat (picture: Olga Bugro, Shutterstock)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/12/control-instead-of-ban-on-plastic-waste-imports</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/6/turkeys-plastics-ban-where-does-the-uk-send-its-waste-now</loc>
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      <image:caption>In Turkey, a boy searches through bags of plastic to find bottles to sell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Angus Crawford looking through plastic waste found dumped on roadsides in Turkey last year</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/30/indonesia-imports-recyclate-because-it-lacks-collection-infrastructure-says-industry-ministry</loc>
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      <image:caption>Container of recycled plastic opened at port in Indonesia</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/1/recycle-by-mail-is-a-major-climate-fail</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-07-01</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/7/environmental-groups-concerned-as-government-is-considering-importing-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/23/sale-of-asbestos-laden-aircraft-carrier-so-paulo-raises-concerns</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-23</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>São Paulo aircraft carrier in Rio de Janeiro, 2019</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/7/8/the-plastics-you-throw-away-are-poisoning-the-worlds-eggs</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/21/charlotte-pogue-plastics-plague</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-21</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/16/e-waste-poses-health-threat-to-pakistanis-says-un-study</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/16/dont-believe-the-store-drop-off-label-when-it-comes-to-plastic-packaging</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-16</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Walmart and Greenpeace are now embroiled in a legal battle over mislabeled recyclable plastic packaging. Getty Images / Joe Raedle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Store drop-off label on Hefty products. Jan Dell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Store drop-off label on Clorox products. Jan Dell</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/16/where-the-world-sends-its-multimillion-dollar-ships-to-die</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-16</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/10/wonderful-situation-weve-only-dreamt-of</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-10</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/28/as-plastic-piles-up-new-israeli-recycling-plant-faces-several-hurdles</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As Plastic Piles Up, New Israeli Recycling Plant Faces Several Hurdles - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An Aviv Recycling Industries factory in Neot Hovav that recycled bottles made of plastic. Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/24/in-my-opinion-environmental-justice-is-a-global-issue</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-28</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The leader of the Basel Action Network responds to a position taken by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jim Puckett</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/7/people-should-avoid-unsustainable-consumption-habits-expert-says</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-07</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/6/2/plastic-scrap-faces-cross-border-peril</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-07</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>European recyclers may soon face a regulatory “tsunami” of new directives from the European Commission. Photo by Recycling Today staff.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/25/turkey-sets-out-recycled-polymer-grades-that-are-permitted-for-import</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Recycled PET flake</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/9/13/on-bonfires-outside-bucharest-waste-from-western-europe</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-09-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - On Bonfires outside Bucharest, Waste from Western Europe - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bales of waste illegally imported from Portugal seized in Romania in 2019. Photo: National Environmental Guard of Romania.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/25/senegal-customs-seize-25-tonnes-of-plastic-waste-from-germany</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/24/how-to-use-open-data-to-track-plastic-pollution-from-uk-waste-exports</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - How to use open-data to track plastic pollution from UK waste exports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Campaigner found British plastic waste exports on the coastline of Adana province, Turkey. A recent study by WWF finds that the Cilician coastline (above) suffers more plastic pollution than any other stretch of the Mediterranean (Sentinel 2 data, 2021 — Tracking ocean plastic in Turkey’s Adana province, where Greenpeace visited, with open-source satellite Sentinel 2 ‘Ocean Plastic Detector Prototype Script’, image: TJ)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - How to use open-data to track plastic pollution from UK waste exports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seismic shift: In January, UK exports to Malaysia suddenly shrunk to a mere trickle. Waste recycling exports to OECD countries, which includes Turkey, exploded</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Locations Greenpeace visited for its Trashed report (all in the Adana province)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - How to use open-data to track plastic pollution from UK waste exports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The location (36.681667, 35.066944) where Greenpeace found foreign plastic waste coincides with a location troubled with ocean plastic observed from space (Sentinel 2 images, 2021). A recent study by WWF found that the Cilician coastline (the stretch south of Adana) suffers more plastic pollution than any other stretch of the Mediterranean.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Adana region has been particularly plagued by plastic pollution, Greenpeace writes. The River Seyhan, which runs through the centre of Adana, and the River Ceyhan, which runs to its southeast, are collectively responsible for 9% of the plastic pollution entering the Mediterranean each year — second only to the Nile.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - How to use open-data to track plastic pollution from UK waste exports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Overview of a plastic-polluted coastline, south of the city of Adana (Author of the Sentinel 2 script: Bence Mélykúti, a graduate from Oxford University. Notes: The script is adapted to Sentinel-2 Level-1C images. It separates land from water using the Normalised Difference Water Index (NDWI). It displays land in natural colour. On the water, it should display the presence of plastic in the water on a dark blue/yellow scale, with dark blue representing no contamination. Mélykúti’s prototype does not work reliably but it is a proof of principle in an emerging and pressing area with current, active research. It probably works best, where it gives the least false positives, around Lesbos, Greece, where most data originated from.)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/20/turkey-to-ban-plastic-waste-imports</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Turkey to ban plastic waste imports - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Greenpeace investigators found plastic waste from the UK dumped or burning in the southern city of Adana in Turkey. Photograph: Caner Ozkan/Greenpeace/PA</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/12/2/why-turkey-wants-to-send-german-waste-back</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Why Turkey wants to send German waste back - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>German authorities have to check garbage exports to Turkey. Hundreds of containers filled with plastic waste, very similar to this one, went to a Turkish recycling company that has since lost its certificate. Image: WirtschaftsWoche</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/19/the-us-exports-its-plastic-waste-but-now-other-countries-are-rejecting-it</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The US exports its plastic waste. But now other countries are rejecting it. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/20/greenpeace-africa-reacts-to-attempts-to-turn-senegal-into-a-plastic-waste-dump</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Greenpeace Africa reacts to attempts to turn Senegal into a plastic waste dump - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>© Ibrahima Kebe Diallo / Greenpeace</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/18/turkey-bans-import-of-pe-based-391510-plastics</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Turkey bans import of PE-based 391510 plastics - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/17/as-the-rest-of-world-tackles-plastics-disposal-the-us-resists</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Garbage in Pattaya, Thailand. Major global recipients of plastic waste included Turkey, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Mexico. Image by Leonid Danilov via Pexels.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The unaltered stomach contents of a dead albatross chick. Plastic debris causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals, according to UNESCO. Image by Chris Jordan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A 2015-report on global plastic production. The U.S. is the world’s largest plastics producer after China and is a prodigious exporter of waste; the United States has never fully joined the Basel agreement. Image courtesy of Basel Convention.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic waste at Cracker Construction Shell, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, U.S.. Image by Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A 2019-report showing United States’ plastic waste exports to other countries. Comparing January 2020 to January 2021 figures, the amount of U.S. plastic waste exports increased slightly from 25,200 to 25,700 metric tons, according to BAN. Image courtesy of Plastic Waste Coalition.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unsegregated waste in an Indonesian landfill. Image by Tom Fisk via Pexels.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Litter in Singapore. So long as most plastics aren’t easily biodegradable, their infiltration as microplastics into every part of the global environment will continue. Image by Vaidehi Shah via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/17/uk-plastics-sent-for-recycling-in-turkey-dumped-and-burned-greenpeace-finds</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - UK plastics sent for recycling in Turkey dumped and burned, Greenpeace finds - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic waste found dumped and burned in the Kuyumcular area of Turkey included packaging from UK supermarkets and global food and drinks brands. Photograph: Caner Ozkan/Greenpeace</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - UK plastics sent for recycling in Turkey dumped and burned, Greenpeace finds - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Tesco wrapper found among plastic waste dumped and burned in Adana province, Turkey Photograph: Caner Ozkan/Greenpeace</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/17/biden-administration-called-upon-join-basel-convention-and-promote-global-environmental-justice-for-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Biden Administration Called Upon Join Basel Convention And Promote Global Environmental Justice For Waste - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/13/biden-administration-called-upon-to-join-the-basel-convention-and-promote-global-environmental-justice-for-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-13</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/11/chp-minister-imported-trash-incentives-in-turkey-investigation-in-germany</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - CHP Minister: Imported trash incentives in Turkey, investigation in Germany - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1620746198431-MNS4KSXUCCO2PIQV9SE4/092617296-183571.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - CHP Minister: Imported trash incentives in Turkey, investigation in Germany - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/10/the-eu-may-make-recycling-e-waste-a-legal-requirement-will-it-work</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The EU may make recycling e-waste a legal requirement – will it work? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>E-waste is a growing issue. Bill Hinton/Getty Images.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/6/authorities-examine-german-plastic-waste-exports-to-turkey</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Authorities examine German plastic waste exports to Turkey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Last year, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office, Germany exported over 136,000 tons of plastic waste from factories and garbage cans in German households to Turkey. Image: imago images</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/5/6/german-packaging-waste-stranded-in-turkey-raises-legal-questions</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - German packaging waste stranded in Turkey raises legal questions</image:title>
      <image:caption>Containers with plastics from packaging take-back systems may have to be returned. (representative image)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/29/operation-30-days-at-sea-30-reveals-1600-marine-pollution-offences-worldwide</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-06</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/29/dark-clouds-over-the-future-of-eu-trash-burning</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/27/in-romania-modern-slaves-burn-noxious-trash-for-a-living</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - In Romania, ‘modern slaves’ burn noxious trash for a living</image:title>
      <image:caption>A riot police officer gestures while trying to turn an elderly Romanian Roma woman away from a place where people were illegally burning scrap containing metal during a raid by the National Environmental Guard in Vidra, Romania, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Many people in the Roma community in SIntesti scrape a dangerous living by illegally setting fire to whatever they can find that contains metal, from computers to tires and electrical cables.(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/26/stop-exporting-plastic-waste-out-of-europe-eu-lawmakers-say</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Stop exporting plastic waste out of Europe, EU lawmakers say</image:title>
      <image:caption>The current regulation fails to promote a circular economy, according to the Commission's impact assessment. [Meryll / Shutterstock]</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/28/after-china-ban-romania-hit-by-illegal-waste-imports</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/20/the-global-norths-environmental-impact-on-the-global-south</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/20/the-recycling-industry-in-america-is-broken</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-02</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/19/the-plastic-waste-crime-problem</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The Plastic Waste Crime Problem</image:title>
      <image:caption>A bulldozer pushes a pile of trash in a pit at Recology on 2 April, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (AFP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The Plastic Waste Crime Problem</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: Various</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/19/at-long-last-thors-poisonous-mercury-is-getting-cleaned-up</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - At long last, Thor’s poisonous mercury is getting cleaned up</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thor factory. Photo: Steve McCurrach Bateleurs Flying fort the Environment</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - At long last, Thor’s poisonous mercury is getting cleaned up</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/15/crime-networks-suspected-of-burning-tech-waste-for-scrap-metal-in-romania</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Crime networks suspected of burning tech waste for scrap metal in Romania</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/14/irresponsibly-managed-plastic-waste-trade-has-no-place-in-a-circular-economy</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Irresponsibly Managed Plastic Waste Trade Has No Place in a Circular Economy</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/13/dont-tar-legitimate-plastic-recycling-along-with-illegal-firms-say-industry-groups</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Don't tar legitimate plastic recycling along with illegal firms, say industry groups</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in Jenjarom, Kuala Langat, Malaysia October 14, 2018. — Reuters pic</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/13/plastic-is-falling-from-the-sky-but-wheres-it-coming-from</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where’s It Coming From?</image:title>
      <image:caption>PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE KEMP/GETTY IMAGES</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/12/ea-still-working-to-return-waste-illegally-dumped-in-malaysia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - EA still working to return waste illegally dumped in Malaysia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Malaysian officials inspecting a container containing plastic waste shipment on January 20, 2020 before sending back to the countries of origin. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/7/no-away-why-is-the-us-still-offshoring-plastic-waste-around-the-world</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-30</lastmod>
  </url>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/7/exporter-malaysian-case-provides-some-basel-clarity</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Malaysian authorities recently approved a container of clean PE scrap for import from U.S.-based Sigma Recycling. | UNIKYLUCKK/Shutterstock</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/6/malaysia-sends-back-over-300-containers-of-illicit-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Malaysia sends back over 300 containers of illicit plastic waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>FILE PHOTO: Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in Jenjarom, Kuala Langat, Malaysia October 14, 2018. Picture taken October 14, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/4/angry-protest-in-tunisia-over-garbage-shipment-from-italy</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-06</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/4/about-100-containers-of-plastic-waste-still-sitting-at-nbct</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-06</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/1/bill-banning-plastic-exports-passes-through-committee</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Bill banning plastic exports passes through committee</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/20/clandestine-import-of-garbage-becomes-a-problem-in-brazilian-ports</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-20</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>SEIZURE AT THE RIO GRANDE DO SUL TERMINAL</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/31/malaysia-permits-import-of-us-plastic-waste-shipment-after-it-passes-new-un-treaty-test</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Malaysia permits import of U.S. plastic waste shipment after it passes new UN treaty test</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/1/sam-developed-nations-should-stop-exporting-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-04-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - SAM: Developed nations should stop exporting waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Developed countries like the United States should take responsibility for their own waste and recycle them domestically rather than export them, Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) said. - NSTP file pic</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/1/tunisians-demand-italy-take-back-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Tunisians demand Italy take back waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Activists demonstrate in Tunisia's port city of Sousse to demand the return to Italy of household waste exported illegaly to Tunisia Bechir TAIEB AFP</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/26/press-release-ngos-call-upon-authorities-to-sanction-illegal-exports-of-cruises</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-04-30</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1618950398745-SM6TOGP028UIBB6UGILR/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+1.25.35+PM.png</image:loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - NGOs call upon authorities to sanction illegal exports of cruises</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/25/whistle-blown-whistle-heard-malaysia-declares-reported-shipments-of-us-plastic-wastes-to-asia-are-illegal</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Whistle Blown, Whistle Heard: Malaysia Declares Reported Shipments of US Plastic Wastes to Asia are Illegal</image:title>
      <image:caption>Target Indonesia. Aeshninna Azzahra (Nina) 14, of the River Warrior, a girl-power environmental organization displaying Target department store’s bags exported from the US to Indonesia, protesting the recent plastic waste arrivals from the US. Copyright Ecoton 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Whistle Blown, Whistle Heard: Malaysia Declares Reported Shipments of US Plastic Wastes to Asia are Illegal</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indonesian River Warrior protest the shipments of American plastic waste due to arrive in Indonesia following BAN warnings. Copyright Ecoton 2021.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwreuterscom/article/us-malaysia-environment-plastic/malaysia-to-return-us-plastic-waste-shipment-under-new-un-rules-iduskbn2bg0zl</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-24</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwdailyexpresscommy/news/168275/container-from-us-suspected-of-bringing-in-waste-seized</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-04-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Container from US suspected of bringing in waste seized</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwnstcommy/news/nation/2021/03/676028/malaysian-authorities-waiting-arrival-ship-carrying-plastic-waste-us</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Malaysian authorities waiting for arrival of ship carrying plastic waste from US</image:title>
      <image:caption>Environment and Water Minister, Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (right) with Perak Chief Minister Datuk Saarani Mohamad at the launch of state-level World Water Day at Casuarina Hotel here, today. - STR/SHARUL HAFIZ ZAM.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/recyclinginternationalcom/plastics/plastic-scrap-gains-as-prime-prices-rise/33127</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-23</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/waste-management-worldcom/a/germany-s-problems-with-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Germany's problems with plastic waste</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwyoutubecom/watchappdesktopvfiu9gsomt8eabchannellastweektonight</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwnewagebdnet/article/133129/experts-urge-govt-for-steps-to-reduce-plastic-wastes</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwnstcommy/news/nation/2021/03/675571/container-la-suspected-carrying-plastic-waste-be-seized-monday</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Container from LA suspected of carrying plastic waste to be seized on Monday</image:title>
      <image:caption>Malaysia will be detaining a container from Los Angeles, suspected to be carrying commercial plastic waste when it arrives in Port Klang on Monday (March 22). - NSTP file pic</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/thefinancialexpresscombd/national/emphasis-on-ratifying-basel-ban-amendment-to-stop-illegal-plastic-waste-trade-1616155934</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Emphasis on ratifying Basel Ban Amendment to stop illegal plastic waste trade</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwdenverpostcom/2021/03/18/letters-u-s-plastic-waste-exports-are-shameful-3-18-21</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/tinyurlcom/yt3zfjy7</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Plan for neighbour states to build joint water treatment plants</image:title>
      <image:caption>Saarani Mohamad (third from left) and Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man looking at a water measuring equipment during the World Water Day celebrations in Perak. (Bernama pic)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwecowatchcom/us-illegal-plastic-waste-2651126176html</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - U.S. Continues to Ship Illegal Plastic Waste to Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>A man carries a bucket of plastic waste at an import plastic waste dump in Mojokerto, Indonesia, on December 4, 2018. Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/22/call-for-saving-bangladesh-from-mounting-hazards-of-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1616424103516-ELWM8V1CRQQTKOKR9BEM/chairperson-of-esdo-is-giving-his-speech-1616086115745.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Call for saving Bangladesh from mounting hazards of plastic waste</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/22/experts-urge-govt-for-steps-to-reduce-plastic-wastes</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/22/experts-urge-govt-to-ratify-basel-amendments-to-curb-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwsknvibescom/news/newsdetailscfm/114809</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - World Consumer Rights Day celebrated under the theme: “Tackling Plastic Pollution”</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/newsdaycott/2021/03/16/gopee-scoon-consumers-must-reduce-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Gopee-Scoon: Consumers must reduce plastic waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Solid Waste Management Co Ltd CEO Kevin Thompson points to compressed plastic bottles at the company's recycling warehouse in Sea Lots, Port of Spain. Photo by Roger Jacob</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwnationalobservercom/2021/03/16/news/proposed-bill-banning-plastic-waste-exports-misses-heart-problem-mps-told</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1616090663927-72CRDLM9K018ETDCUVL8/20210315-landfill-indonesia.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Proposed bill banning plastic waste exports misses ‘heart of the problem,’ MPs told</image:title>
      <image:caption>Landfills such as this one in Indonesia contain plastic waste exported by Canada and the United States. Photo by Tom Fisk / Pexels</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwnytimescom/2021/03/12/climate/plastics-waste-export-banhtml</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Trash pickers scoured the Bantar Gabang landfill in Indonesia for recyclable plastic last year. Credit: Adam Dean for The New York Times</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwwastedivecom/news/california-plastics-packaging-producer-responsibility-package-2021/596537</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The image by Jeff Turner is licensed under CC BY 2.0</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/ipoliticsca/2021/03/17/u-s-plastic-waste-deal-was-needed-to-ratify-basel-amendments-officials</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - U.S. plastic-waste deal was needed to ratify Basel amendments: officials</image:title>
      <image:caption>(Surfrider Pacific)</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/ipoliticsca/2021/03/16/it-should-be-illegal-to-export-most-plastic-waste-say-environmental-groups</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - It should be illegal to export most plastic waste, say environmental groups</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/4/1/proposed-bill-banning-plastic-waste-exports-misses-heart-of-the-problem-mps-told</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-04-01</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwvicecom/en/article/wx8mdq/criminal-gangs-are-cashing-in-on-humanitys-plastic-crap</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-15</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwthestarcommy/news/nation/2021/03/15/plastic-scrap-from-us-under-probe</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-15</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man. -filepic</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/12/exports-of-us-plastic-garbage-rise-despite-ban</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Exports of U.S. Plastic Garbage Rise, Despite Ban</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwwaste360com/plastics/california-clamps-down-plastics-exports</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwrecycling-magazinecom/2021/03/10/navigating-the-latest-changes-in-waste-legislation</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Navigating the latest changes in waste legislation</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwrebnewscom/us-violating-basel-plastic-waste-export-rules-according-to-ban</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US violating Basel plastic waste export rules, according to BAN</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/resource-recyclingcom/plastics/2021/03/10/operator-looks-to-expand-e-plastic-sorting-system</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Operator looks to expand e-plastic sorting system</image:title>
      <image:caption>Owl Electronic Recycling operates a wash line handling e-plastics at its Pennsylvania facility. | Courtesy of Owl Electronic Recycling</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/11/widow-of-bangladeshi-shipbreaker-gets-green-light-in-negligence-case-against-maran-tankers</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/11/us-plastic-waste-exports-in-violation-of-new-un-rules-1</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/11/us-plastic-waste-exports-in-violation-of-new-un-rules</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-11</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/unctadorg/news/global-plastic-trade-40-bigger-previously-thought-study-finds</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Global plastic trade 40% bigger than previously thought, study finds</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/physorg/news/2021-03-plastic-recycled-oceanhtml</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Think all your plastic is being recycled? New research shows it can end up in the ocean</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwendseuropecom/article/1709094/campaigners-urge-eu-crack-down-illegal-waste-exports-italy-tunisia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Campaigners urge EU crack down on illegal waste exports from Italy to Tunisia</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/10/exclusive-turkey-ban-could-lead-to-plastic-waste-stockpiling-in-the-uk</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - EXCLUSIVE: Turkey ban 'could lead to plastic waste stockpiling in the UK'</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/wwwstuffconz/business/124423532/getting-rid-of-plastic-packaging-new-guidelines-for-business</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Getting rid of plastic packaging: new guidelines for business</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bailed plastics to be sent off for further recycling.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/ampthestatecom/news/state/south-carolina/article249651773htmltwitterimpressiontrue</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Company accused of plastic pollution agrees to pay SC nonprofits $1M in settlement</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Charleston Waterkeeper has found thousands of nurdles along the SC coast. Scientists say more may be hidden. PROVIDED BY CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/lapressetn/89627/dechets-importes-ditalie-des-ongs-tunisiennes-et-internationales-font-pression-pour-un-retour-imminent-des-dechets-au-pays-dorigine</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-03-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Déchets importés d’Italie : Des ONGs tunisiennes et internationales font pression pour un retour imminent des déchets au pays d’origine</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/http/wwwxinhuanetcom/english/europe/2021-03/04/c139781344htm</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-05</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/https/sdgiisdorg/news/pace-releases-guidance-for-circular-economy-transition-in-five-sectors</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-03</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614814524823-CRQH9R146GAW1YG9L9N8/Screenshot+2021-03-03+153413.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - PACE Releases Guidance for Circular Economy Transition in Five Sectors</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/3/think-all-your-plastic-is-being-recycled-new-research-shows-it-can-end-up-in-the-ocean</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Think all your plastic is being recycled? New research shows it can end up in the ocean</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/3/2/italian-company-caught-illegally-dumping-plastic-and-other-municipal-waste-in-tunisia</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-03</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614732900333-UX6O1RF2297QO0ZGDB97/03-03-2021+picture.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Italian Company Caught Illegally Dumping Plastic and other Municipal Waste in Tunisia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bales of Italian waste exported to Tunisia by Sviluppo Risorse Ambientali photographed during a visit by Tunisian legislators and journalists to the port of Sousse in December 2020 (Credits: Hamdi Chebaane).</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/24/groups-eye-shipping-industry-for-basel-enforcement</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Groups eye shipping industry for Basel enforcement</image:title>
      <image:caption>A number of environmental groups wrote to shipping lines urging them to stop carrying scrap plastics. | Jordi Prats/Shutterstock</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/24/watchdog-challenges-shipping-lines-to-curb-illegal-waste-exports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614186172876-FWJGK76635E6G8FKFDB7/Screen+Shot+2021-02-24+at+9.02.14+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Watchdog challenges shipping lines to curb illegal waste exports</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/23/kenya-still-at-risk-despite-un-plastics-nod-greenpeace</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614109531225-ZJ44MXPYJEFWPK85NPUC/Cart+Load+of+Waste+from+the+River+the+DYF+are+cleaning.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Kenya Still at Risk Despite UN Plastics Nod: Greenpeace</image:title>
      <image:caption>Devoted Youth Foundation volunteers cart single-use plastic waste collected from Nairobi River. Credit: Greenpeace</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/22/activists-ask-shipping-lines-to-stop-exporting-plastic-waste-to-developing-countries</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-02-12</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614060133968-GONTELHDYF7RRAW3EXC0/shipping-logos-all+copy.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Activists Ask Shipping Lines to Stop Exporting Plastic Waste to Developing Countries</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Activists Ask Shipping Lines to Stop Exporting Plastic Waste to Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Illegal plastic waste imported from the US was seized in Batam, Indonesia, in 2019 and shipped back. When hundreds of shipping containers land in a country every day, it is impossible for local authorities to inspect the contents of every container. Sei Ratifa AFP.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614043551023-M6C5YU81JU6IIQMZ62JQ/Screen+Shot+2021-02-22+at+11.14.07+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Activists Ask Shipping Lines to Stop Exporting Plastic Waste to Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>*Data compiled by BAN from the UN Comtrade Database show that the US, UK, EU and Japan routinely shipped plastic waste to non-OECD countries last year. The latest data available in October 2020, they have been increasing plastic waste exports to Non-OECD Countries showing their dependence on offshoring their plastic waste.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/18/assemblywoman-gonzalez-authors-bill-to-ensure-californias-plastic-waste-exports-are-truly-recyclable</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/2/4/legal-analysis-of-the-consequences-of-the-oecd-non-consensus-determination-on-the-basel-plastic-amendment</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/19/mounting-e-waste-is-harming-the-planet-heres-how-we-solve-the-problem</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-01-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Mounting E-Waste is Harming the Planet. Here’s How We Solve the Problem.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Most of the world’s electronics are not recycled, posing health and environmental risks. Image: REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Mounting E-Waste is Harming the Planet. Here’s How We Solve the Problem.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sending electronics to junkyards or landfills wastes an opportunity to recycle valuable materials inside them. Image: Joe Sohm/Visions of America /Getty Images</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/19/brexit-loophole-allows-uk-to-ignore-eu-ban-on-plastic-waste-exports</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - BREXIT ‘Loophole’ Allows UK to Ignore EU Ban on Plastic Waste Exports</image:title>
      <image:caption>The UK continues to export plastic waste to countries which can't properly treat it - Copyright Getty via Canva</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/14/whats-the-fix-for-the-us-plastic-waste-pile-up</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-03</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/14/basel-plastic-regulations-cause-fight-for-feedstock</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Basel plastic regulations cause ‘fight for feedstock’</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scrap plastic traders are facing challenges from increased freight rates and cancellations of bookings by shipping lines as Basel regulations are implemented. | Mariusz Bugno/Shutterstock</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/14/uk-claims-green-credentials-to-woo-joe-biden-but-is-under-fire-over-plastic-waste-trade-policies</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-03</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1610660941621-2WC4KYM8H93SO731TI78/plastics_recycling.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - UK claims green credentials to woo Joe Biden but is under fire over plastic waste trade policies</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/13/make-ratification-of-the-basel-convention-priority-in-the-first-100-days</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-01-19</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/12/uk-will-allow-exports-of-mixed-and-dirty-plastic-wastes-to-developing-countries-despite-eu-ban</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - UK will Allow Exports of Mixed and Dirty Plastic Wastes to Developing Countries Despite EU Ban</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indonesian scavanger Suparno, 60, stands in front of burning plastic waste at an imported plastic dumpsite in Mojokerto. Photograph: Fully Handoko/EPA</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/1/5/greens-say-us-canada-plastic-shipping-violates-treaty</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Greens say U.S.-Canada plastic shipping violates treaty</image:title>
      <image:caption>Under amendments to the Basel Convention that take effect Friday, any party to the convention that agrees to ship its plastic waste to a non-party, such as the United States, must ensure the recipient has sufficient environmental controls. Zachary Lehr/Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/22/us-canada-plastic-trade-deal-subverts-basel-convention12</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US-CANADA PLASTIC TRADE DEAL SUBVERTS BASEL CONVENTION</image:title>
      <image:caption>It’s estimated that the US exports to Canada enough scrap plastic daily to fill 80 standard shipping containers like this one. Photo credit: Tom Brandt / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US-CANADA PLASTIC TRADE DEAL SUBVERTS BASEL CONVENTION</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lafarge Paulding Cement Plant near Paulding, OH. Lafarge is known for burning plastic scrap to fuel its kilns. Photo credit: James St. John / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/15/uk-plastic-waste-washes-up-on-unspoiled-maine-island-after-falling-into-the-sea</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - UK plastic waste washes up on unspoiled Maine island after falling into the sea</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/15/govt-wont-allow-plastic-waste-trade</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/10/us-set-to-become-the-worlds-biggest-criminal-trafficker-in-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US Set to Become the World's Biggest Criminal Trafficker in Plastic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic waste imported from the US was seized in Batam, Indonesia in 2019 and shipped back. Such illegal exports are set to increase dramatically when new global rules enter into force on the first of January 2021. Sei Ratifa AFP.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US Set to Become the World's Biggest Criminal Trafficker in Plastic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Imported wastes dumped in Indonesia. Such imports are not all economic to recycle and are thus dumped and burned. Source: "Discarded" report published by GAIA, 2019.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/3/enviro-groups-call-secret-plastic-waste-trade-agreement-between-canada-and-usa-illegal-and-unacceptable</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Enviro Groups Call Secret Plastic Waste Trade Agreement Between Canada and USA Illegal and Unacceptable</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/12/1/norwegian-ship-owner-sentenced-to-prison</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-12-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Norwegian ship owner sentenced to prison</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/11/11/us-continues-to-export-plastic-waste-to-developing-countries-as-2021-international-trade-ban-looms</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - US Continues to Export Plastic Waste to Developing Countries as 2021 International Trade Ban Looms</image:title>
      <image:caption>Imported wastes dumped in Indonesia. Such imports are not all economic to recycle and are thus dumped and burned. Source: "Discarded" report published by GAIA, 2019.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2021/8/9/despite-the-recycling-success-sfs-zero-waste-goal-remains-elusive</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-08-09</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1628526777087-5NWHXQDF8ENTYQCVPFSS/BinsOfRecycling2.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Despite the recycling success, SF’s zero waste goal remains elusive - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bales of paper, plastic and cardboard stand ready to be shipped out from the San Francisco Recycling Center. Benjamin Pender/CC BY-NC 2.0</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/10/26/new-un-report-details-environmental-impacts-of-export-of-used-vehicles-to-developing-world</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-06-24</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/10/16/uk-waste-exports-to-malaysia-increased-by-81-in-the-first-half-of-the-year</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/10/8/poland-plans-to-send-1000-tonnes-of-smuggled-waste-back-to-uk-greenpeace</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-10-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Poland Plans To Send 1,000 Tonnes Of Smuggled Waste Back To UK - Greenpeace</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/10/7/gps-trackers-reveal-dell-and-goodwill-continue-to-export-your-e-waste-to-developing-countries</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-11-12</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1602042139789-52QXZ78VROTN760RX64Z/image-asset.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - GPS Trackers Reveal Dell and Goodwill Continue to Export Your e-Waste to Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Report cover from 2016. BAN once again finds Dell's signature e-Waste take back program -- reconnect, shuttling the public's e-waste to developing countries rather than recycling it here in the USA as promised.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/10/6/thailand-passes-strict-ban-on-the-importation-of-electronic-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-10-06</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1601999557132-P9I85SLRTUTI252WMJFZ/VphRBjU.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Thailand Passes Strict Ban on the Importation of Electronic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yian Hai Electric Co. Ltd. site near Sriracha, Thailand. BAN discovered this site by installing a tracker inside electronic equipment and deploying it in Europe. Working conditions here were very poor with workers living onsite in cardboard shacks. Copyright BAN, February 2, 2018.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1601999592829-HWZ4V15WH51R79L8URT6/22vqZJ5.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Thailand Passes Strict Ban on the Importation of Electronic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Drone view of Thai "dioxin factory" where circuit boards and wires are burned in a giant smelter. Toxic smoke belches from the stack, while ash piles are visible in foreground, and imported electronic equipment seen in the background. Copyright BAN, February 2, 2018.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/9/23/ngos-call-eus-intent-to-export-toxic-ships-to-developing-countries-illegal-and-contrary-to-aims-of-green-deal</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-11-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/9/29/the-problem-with-recycling-one-word-plastics</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1601405674384-87YNLHPW6T7JOEP06SWC/eelforinsta-1160x1305.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - The problem with recycling? One word: Plastics</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1601405766199-P2KSQQ2N8B2F8A8Q2SG2/image-asset.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - The problem with recycling? One word: Plastics</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/9/4/decommissioned-clemenceau-class-aircraft-carrier-returns-to-brazilian-navy-after-bid-suspended</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Decommissioned Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier returns to Brazilian Navy after bid suspended</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/9/3/resist-any-attempts-to-turn-kenya-into-dumping-ground</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-09-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Resist any attempts to turn Kenya into dumping ground</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/8/30/as-china-closes-its-doors-to-american-plastics-the-us-looks-to-kenya</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-09</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1612895735700-L5NXVY2KEYQ8S5WBKAZZ/merlin_175562490_a1516f01-f58f-494c-88d5-99ce2d6a1f7b-articleLarge.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - As China closes its doors to American plastics the US looks to Kenya</image:title>
      <image:caption>A dump in Nakuru, Kenya. A trade group is pushing United States trade negotiators to demand a reversal of the country’s strict limits on plastics.Credit…Khadija M. Farah for The New York Times By Hiroko Tabuchi, Michael Corkery and Carlos Mureithi</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - As China closes its doors to American plastics the US looks to Kenya</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kenya has some of the world’s toughest restrictions on plastic bags.Credit…Khadija M. Farah for The New York Times</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/7/23/malaysia-uncovers-largest-abandoned-shipment-of-illegal-toxic-waste-from-romania</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-07-23</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/7/23/group-smuggling-e-waste-to-africa-busted-in-spanish-islands</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-07-23</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/7/22/danish-shipper-maersk-to-stop-taking-waste-to-china-hong-kong-from-sept</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-17</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/7/21/110-containers-of-toxic-waste-discovered-at-tg-pelepas-port</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-07-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - 110 containers of toxic waste discovered at Tg Pelepas Port</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - 110 containers of toxic waste discovered at Tg Pelepas Port</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - 110 containers of toxic waste discovered at Tg Pelepas Port</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - 110 containers of toxic waste discovered at Tg Pelepas Port</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/7/6/eu-promotes-greater-global-responsibility-on-plastic-waste-but-not-for-internal-market</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - EU Promotes Greater Global Responsibility on Plastic Waste -- But Not for Internal Market!</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/6/29/why-is-uk-recycling-being-dumped-by-turkish-roadsides</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-06-29</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/6/29/plastic-waste-sent-from-eu-to-turkey-increased-by-almost-200-times</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/6/18/shipping-giant-stops-e-plastic-exports-to-hong-kong</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1592507574097-0MH779D1WAAHEQJL0NB4/MSC-ship-20200608-By-Fomin-Roman-shutterstock_1747873004-web-1024x682.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Shipping giant stops e-plastic exports to Hong Kong</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shipping company MSC stopped accepting scrap cargo headed to China and Hong Kong as of June 1. | Fomin Roman/Shutterstock</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/6/17/online-basel-convention-meeting-postponed-says-bureau-african-countries-and-ngos-had-called-for-delay</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-06-17</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1592410806541-NJTNDI99STWQZJDDFNWJ/AdobeStock-87550527-opt.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Online Basel Convention meeting postponed, says bureau. African countries and NGOs had called for delay.</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/5/29/development-more-arrested-for-illegal-import-of-waste-from-italy</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-05-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1590768772455-6U83T17AMKSDQ31UY2NN/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Development: More Arrested for Illegal Import of Waste from Italy</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/5/21/regulation-could-clean-up-new-zealands-exports-of-contaminated-recycling-to-developing-countries</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-05-21</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1590095475710-MZ8IE092OSR6FXUGK63X/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Regulation could clean up New Zealand's exports of contaminated recycling to developing countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>New Zealand can't recycle its own rubbish, so it's mostly sent to developing countries.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1590095513371-U4MJ78VW0STJK1NUSA9B/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Regulation could clean up New Zealand's exports of contaminated recycling to developing countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>New Zealand doesn't have its own onshore recycling for the majority of its plastic.</image:caption>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1590095546750-9EA5ZXFF38YDP2JQQAY9/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Regulation could clean up New Zealand's exports of contaminated recycling to developing countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Waste being dumped overseas could be made up of contaminants like food, dirt, other contamination, or consist of plastic types that shouldn’t be in that particular bale and/or won’t be recycled (eg, PVC in a bale of PET).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Regulation could clean up New Zealand's exports of contaminated recycling to developing countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Consumer education about proper recycling could reduce contamination.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/5/14/online-basel-convention-meeting-will-disadvantage-developing-countries-says-ngo</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-05-14</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/5/8/SWEAP reports increase in waste detection rate – results of waste inspections</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-05-08</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/4/29/ngos-urge-bangladesh-authorities-to-halt-the-import-of-a-highly-toxic-offshore-unit-that-illegally-departed-from-indonesia</loc>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - NGOs urge Bangladesh authorities to halt the import of a highly toxic offshore unit that illegally departed from Indonesia</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/4/20/africas-exploding-plastic-nightmare</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>A woman takes a break from collecting waste to read the newspaper at the Dandora municipal dump site in Nairobi, Kenya, on Feb. 15, 2020. Photo: Khadija Farah for The Intercept</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Miriam Nyambura shows the cuts on her fingers from sifting through broken glass at the Dandora dump. Photo: Khadija Farah for The Intercept.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/4/8/no-away-why-is-the-us-still-offshoring-plastic-waste-around-the-world</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/4/3/environment-ministry-foils-bid-to-illegally-import-used-lead-acid-batteries-from-australia</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-04-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environment Ministry foils bid to illegally import used lead acid batteries from Australia</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/2/5/european-union-approved-shipbreakers-ignored-as-evil-trade-continues-to-kill</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-03-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - European Union Approved Shipbreakers Ignored as Evil Trade Continues to Kill</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/2/4/9hu9e6ipsha32r1td837frek8u3kuq</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - List of Ships Scrapped Worldwide Reveals US Shipowners are Among the Worst Dumpers</image:title>
      <image:caption>The infamous Bangladesh shipbreaking beaches in Chattogram (formerly Chittagong) where US ships go to die. Copyright Greenpeace.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic representation of 2019 Shipbreaking data. NGO Shipbreaking Platform. 2020.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/30/is-india-becoming-americas-trash-bin-for-illegal-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-01-30</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/21/where-does-your-plastic-go-global-investigation-reveals-americas-dirty-secret</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thắm is paid $6.50 a day to sort recycling on the outskirts of Hanoi. Photograph: Bac Pham/The Guardian</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Migrant workers sort through plastic bottles at the Thaiplastic Recycle Group plant in Samut Sakhon, outside Bangkok, Thailand. Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/21/last-batch-of-imported-trash-sent-back-to-south-korea</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-01-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Groups urgenthe government to ratify Basel Ban Amendment to prevent the entry of imported trash into the country as the remaining imported trash left Tagoloan port for South Korea, where it came from. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/21/china-announces-major-anti-plastic-campaign</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Workers stand over piles of used white plastic food containers at a construction site in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui provinceSTR/Getty</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/11/customs-dept-sleuths-blow-lid-off-dump-in-india-racket</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-05-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2020/1/10/what-happens-to-your-old-laptop-the-growing-problem-of-e-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2020-01-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - What happens to your old laptop? The growing problem of e-waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Veolia recycling facility in Southwark, London, is one of the biggest facilities in the UK © Leo Goddard</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/20/indonesia-lets-plastic-burning-continue-despite-warning-on-health-danger</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-12-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Indonesia lets plastic burning continue despite warning on health danger</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo: Ulet Ifansasti / New York Times. Black smoke — caused by burning plastic as fuel at a tofu factory — hovers over Tropodo, Indonesia. The government is challenging a study that says the smoke is poisoning residents.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/13/the-price-of-recycling-old-laptops-toxic-fumes-in-thailands-lungs</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-12-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs</image:title>
      <image:caption>Foreign workers sorting through piles of shredded e-waste on the premises of New Sky Metal in Thailand in September. Bryan Denton for The New York Times</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/12/chinese-scientists-raise-alarm-about-lcd-screen-pollution</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-12-12</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/6/sri-lankans-demand-uk-take-back-rotting-waste</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-12-06</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/5/long-awaited-global-ban-on-exporting-hazardous-waste-to-developing-countries-becomes-law-today</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-12-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Long Awaited Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law Today</image:title>
      <image:caption>Boy standing on the market dumpsite, full of unrepairable electronic waste imported from Europe and North America for "reuse" in Lagos, Nigeria. Copyright BAN.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Long Awaited Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law Today</image:title>
      <image:caption>Toxic ships exported, and run up on the beaches of Bangladesh for primitive waste management, continue to violate the Basel Ban Amendment to this day. Copyright Greenpeace.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/11/15/ag47nlb6sxlsc3l7cbamas9xoaqpej</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/10/31/kenya-to-ban-used-electronics-imports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-10-31</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/10/29/indonesia-vows-to-return-unwanted-waste-back-to-us-it-ends-up-in-other-asian-countries</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-01-30</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/10/28/global-waste-shell-game-returned-illegal-waste-shipments-from-us-diverted-from-indonesia-to-other-asian-countries</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-10-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Global Waste Shell Game: "Returned" Illegal Waste Shipments from U.S., Diverted from Indonesia to other Asian Countries</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/10/7/argentinas-new-waste-decree-is-illegal-and-must-be-repealed</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-10-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Argentina's new waste decree is illegal  and must be repealed</image:title>
      <image:caption>Protest by the Argentine Federation of Cartoneros, Carreros y Recyladores (FACCyR) against new Decree that changes the definition of waste to allow more imports of wastes into Argentina. Decree is illegal under Basel Convention to which Argentina is a party. September 2019. Copyright FACCyR.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/9/28/we-asked-3-companies-to-recycle-canadian-plastic-and-secretly-tracked-it-only-1-company-recycled-the-material</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/9/27/we-dont-want-to-be-the-next-cancer-village-canadas-plastic-recycling-dumped-and-burned-overseas</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/9/8/global-ban-on-exporting-hazardous-waste-to-developing-countries-becomes-law</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-09-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law</image:title>
      <image:caption>Market scavenger at electronic waste dump of unrepairable, unusable imported e-waste from North America and Europe. Such dumps are set ablaze routinely resulting in highly toxic air emissions. Alaba market, Lagos, Nigeria. Copyright Basel Action Network 2005.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Becomes Law</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bangladeshi workers scrapping imported ships on the beach. Shipowners take pains to circumvent Basel Convention controls because the ships contain asbestos, heavy metals, and flammable gasses and oils, contaminating the beaches and causing death and occupational disease of the workforce. Copyright Greenpeace 2006.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/9/3/accident-on-board-greek-ship-kills-two-and-injures-seventeen</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-09-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Accident on board Greek ship kills two and injures thirteen</image:title>
      <image:caption>An image of the VIRGIN STAR (first ship from the left) after its arrival in Chattogram - © NGO Shipbreaking Platform</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/9/3/slave-to-sachets-how-poverty-worsens-the-plastics-crisis-in-the-philippines</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1567534576881-DAMT1NQPNRGF4A5TC8DA/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Slave to sachets: How poverty worsens the plastics crisis in the Philippines</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sachets of Nestle's Nescafe coffee and Unilever's Sunsilk shampoo are pictured amidst a garbage-filled shore on Freedom Island, Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 15, 2019. Picture taken July 15, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/8/30/global-ban-on-exporting-hazardous-waste-to-developing-countries-close-to-becoming-law</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-08-30</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1567191850876-GJLLYHVFLDC3V67SNTLU/26917109965_8e4d4db448_o.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Global Ban on Exporting Hazardous Waste to Developing Countries Close to Becoming Law</image:title>
      <image:caption>American e-waste exported by so-called "electronics recyclers" dumped in hidden Hong Kong e-waste junkyard discovered by BAN GPS trackers. This trade is criminal traffic and will be illegal under the Ban Amendment which has been ratified by China. Copyright BAN, March 2016.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/8/26/deadly-mercury-injected-into-the-air-a-very-convenient-fire-governments-failure-means-thor-chemicals-will-never-be-held-accountable</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-08-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/8/21/plastic-recycling-is-a-myth-what-really-happens-to-your-rubbish</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1566405910035-6YV821H01T1SY8S8ZIBJ/5238.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Plastic waste ready for inspection before being sent to Malaysia; the UK produces more refuse than it can process at home – about 1.1kg per person per day. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/25/sri-lanka-accuses-uk-of-hiding-human-remains-in-100-containers-of-exported-recycling</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1564094871474-VQ35HLD4QI79RDQJRY3Q/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Sri Lanka accuses UK of hiding human remains in 100 containers of exported recycling</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/23/how-the-plastics-industry-is-fighting-to-keep-polluting-the-world</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-23</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/23/nws-largest-e-recycling-business-was-a-fraud-rules-federal-judge</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-23</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/23/more-energy-needed-in-battle-against-e-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-23</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/23/as-cambodia-complains-about-trash-exports-environmentalists-urge-canada-to-ban-practice</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-04-01</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/21/canada-called-upon-to-finally-sign-pact-to-stop-dumping-wastes-on-developing-countries</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1563756519695-A9EVDLHF7M4LE0E6PKPK/Picture1.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Canada Called Upon to Finally Sign Pact to Stop Dumping Wastes on Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of many protests organized by the Ecowaste Coalition in Manila, Philippines in the last 4 years urging Canada to Ratify the Ban Amendment and take their waste back. Copyright Ecowaste Coalition.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/17/another-country-just-received-a-massive-shipment-of-garbage-from-canada-and-theyre-not-happy</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-18</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/17/confirmation-that-garbage-from-foreign-nations-have-been-dumped-in-katunayake</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-18</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/16/recycled-electronics-are-turning-thailand-into-a-dumping-ground-for-hazardous-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/14/us-objects-to-new-global-rules-to-better-control-exports-of-contaminated-and-mixed-plastic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/10/environmentalists-applaud-bipartisan-proposal-to-finally-stop-the-exporting-of-us-electronic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-10</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/9/eight-more-containers-of-toxic-rubbish-to-be-sent-back-to-australia</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1562729867147-APAS3THUT6M11J2ZD2VB/ezgif-4-86eca8ea4996.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Eight more containers of 'toxic' rubbish to be sent back to Australia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Indonesian Customs official Dhion Priharyanto holds up a used nappy, soft drink containers and a plastic of organic raspberries mixed in with paper that was supposed to be recycled. Instead, it will be sent back to Australia.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/7/2/canada-takes-garbage-back-from-philippines-ending-long-dispute</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-03</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/24/the-circular-economy-how-rwanda-tries-to-chart-its-course-in-hostile-global-waters</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-24</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1561414829225-4MPBO9QHPU076QN227AI/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - The circular economy: How Rwanda tries to chart its course in hostile global waters</image:title>
    </image:image>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1561414770424-2SLHPCPVJTHJ5T6NVNPV/0.76215100_1560770685_37-20190630-english.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - The circular economy: How Rwanda tries to chart its course in hostile global waters</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/12/5/111-million-tonnes-of-plastic-waste-will-have-nowhere-to-go-by-2030-due-to-chinese-import-ban-study</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1575573482902-IBD5BMQRRXV9Y3HP4W68/Screen+Shot+2019-12-05+at+11.17.08+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will have nowhere to go by 2030 due to Chinese import ban: study</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/14/hong-kong-urged-to-look-into-high-profile-case-of-electronic-waste-illegally-shipped-to-philippines-as-greenpeace-loses-track-of-cargo</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-14</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1560547299990-A77PC3O14UJ1JG9HXXWR/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Hong Kong urged to look into high-profile case of electronic waste illegally shipped to Philippines as Greenpeace loses track of cargo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Greenpeace campaigners in Hong Kong urge authorities to investigate the case. Photo: Greenpeace Hong Kong Office</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1560547340223-JYCJHC0MSTUN19AQO38G/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Hong Kong urged to look into high-profile case of electronic waste illegally shipped to Philippines as Greenpeace loses track of cargo</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Philippines sent the container away on June 3. Photo: Greenpeace Hong Kong Office/ Froilan Gallardo</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/14/americas-grungy-recycled-plastic-is-creating-wastelands-in-asia</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/11/is-the-eu-lowering-global-standards-for-toxic-and-persistent-substances</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-11</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/11/indonesia-to-re-export-illegal-plastic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/11/wealthy-nations-seek-solutions-at-home-as-more-developing-countries-reject-plastic-waste-exports</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/10/govt-urged-to-ratify-law-vs-waste-dumping-to-philippines</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-10</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/7/are-the-real-travel-influencers-traveling-full-time</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-07</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/7/we-stand-with-you-on-illegal-plastic-waste-trade-uk-tells-malaysia</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/7/southeast-asia-doesnt-want-to-be-the-worlds-dumping-ground-heres-how-some-countries-are-pushing-back</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-07</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/6/4/hong-kong-electronic-waste-to-be-shipped-back</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-06-04</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/31/philippines-forces-canada-to-take-back-its-rubbish</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-31</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/30/malaysia-to-return-3000-tonnes-of-illegally-exported-plastic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1563373709558-AMYXQOAC1JQXCB5E5LE8/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Malaysia to return 3000 tonnes of illegally exported plastic waste</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/27/your-recycled-laptop-may-be-incinerated-in-an-illegal-asian-scrapyard</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1559022098503-9AGGMSYMQCEL8852R2GM/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Your ‘recycled’ laptop may be incinerated in an illegal Asian scrapyard</image:title>
      <image:caption>Workers smelt copper from electronic circuitry in a remote factory east of Bangkok, Thailand.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/21/how-america-is-sabotaging-the-global-war-on-plastic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1558467225557-J1UKVG3L2RA35FYT3TWV/5c8140ab2500009a0580d65d.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - How America Is Sabotaging The Global War On Plastic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Greenpeace activist at a dumpsite in Ipoh, Malaysia, on Jan. 30. Unlicensed recyclers are illegally burning or dumping waste plastics at sites across the country.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/21/trash-talk-in-the-philippines-reveals-waste-trails-in-southeast-asia</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-21</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/17/millions-of-pieces-of-plastic-waste-found-on-remote-island-chain</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1558115233438-GETD3YO9O6NHTJK1UKUV/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Millions of pieces of plastic waste found on remote island chain</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/14/basel-changes-may-have-bigger-impact-than-china-ban</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-14</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1557858113244-KCVHZJKGX9L2KKLUFHCU/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Basel changes may have ‘bigger impact’ than China ban</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo credit: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/12/international-e-waste-export-guideline-deemed-unready</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1557728022890-NB56OHR98O9LO6FKRO5A/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - International e-Waste Export Guideline  Deemed  Unready</image:title>
      <image:caption>Young workers burning electronic wastes imported into Ghana for repair and reuse. However_ when repair is not economically viable the wastes are simply dumped and burned in this disenfranchised slum known as Agbogbloshie outside of Accra. This year_ studies revealed that the eggs laid by hens in the slum recorded the highest level of brominated dioxins ever recorded. Copyright BAN.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/12/canada-opposes-ban-on-indefensible-practice-of-shipping-hazardous-waste-to-developing-countries</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-12</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1557678799535-WNIJTP1AS5Z73HHTWY0J/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Canada opposes ban on ‘indefensible’ practice of shipping hazardous waste to developing countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>People collect plastic materials at a garbage dump in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on March 23. The Basel Convention requires its signatories to seek permission from other countries before exporting hazardous and household waste.  (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP/GETTY IMAGES)</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/5/10/basel-convention-agrees-to-control-plastic-waste-trade</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1557504356354-UUHPHBK4KL2OC7QSZ0CI/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Basel Convention Agrees to Control Plastic Waste Trade</image:title>
      <image:caption>BAN delegation with Break Free From Plastics movement spokesperson Von Hernandez announcing a global petition for adoption of the Norwegian Proposal in the plenary of the 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention. The petition achieved over one and a half million signatures from around the world. Copyright BAN 2019.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1557504415988-5VXBC39O35QYON5E1OAY/MSyypgT.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Basel Convention Agrees to Control Plastic Waste Trade</image:title>
      <image:caption>Children collect plastic water bottles among the garbage washed ashore at Manila Bay in the Philippines. Copyright AFP.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/29/new-responsible-guideline-for-trade-in-used-electronic-equipment-published</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-03</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1556551469042-1QKQ7S57EPC8I7D8H5ZK/Screen+Shot+2019-04-24+at+4.55.55+PM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - New Responsible Guideline for Trade in Used Electronic Equipment Published</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/25/canada-is-in-the-wrong-environmentalists-urge-the-country-to-clear-out-its-trash-from-the-philippines</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-07-22</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1563755759495-U3VGUDZWWLCDQ678T7G7/image-asset.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - 'Canada is in the wrong': Environmentalists urge the country to clear out its trash from the Philippines</image:title>
      <image:caption>Environmental activists rally outside the Philippine Senate in Manila on September 9, 2015 to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped back to Canada and to push for the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment which prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed to developing countries. (AFP/Getty Images)</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1563755856029-7SWRDL1S2KXH8IM84SGK/image-asset.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - 'Canada is in the wrong': Environmentalists urge the country to clear out its trash from the Philippines</image:title>
      <image:caption>The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, says that if Canada doesn't take back tonnes of trash within the next week, he will "declare war" and ship the containers back himself. (Bullit Marquez/Associated Press)</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/24/rotten-eggs-e-waste-from-europe-poisons-ghanas-food-chain</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-05-29</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/24/httpswwwseattletimescombusinesslargest-e-recycling-fraud-in-u-s-history-sends-owners-of-kent-firm-to-prison</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-04-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Largest e-recycling fraud in U.S. history sends owners of Kent firm to prison</image:title>
      <image:caption>A worker dismantles a computer monitor at Total Reclaim in 2009. Total Reclaim co-founders Craig Lorch and Jeff Zirkle were each sentenced to two years and four months in prison by a federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday. (John Lok / The Seattle Times)</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/23/owners-of-northwests-largest-electronics-recycling-firm-sentenced-to-prison-for-wire-fraud-conspiracy</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2020-05-07</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/16/canadas-electronics-recycling-association-drops-defamation-suit-against-ban</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-04-18</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/4/12/a-recycling-kingpin-is-sentenced-to-3-years-in-federal-prison-for-e-waste-disposal-fraud</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-04-12</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/3/19/house-committee-issues-show-cause-order-vs-importer-of-garbage-from-south-korea</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-03-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - House Committee issues show cause order vs importer of garbage from South Korea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rep. Henry Oaminal (2nd District, Misamis Occidental), chair of the House Committee on Good Governance and Public Accountability, and Bayan Muna partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate consult each other during the public hearing in Cagayan de Oro City on Friday (15 March 2019) on the South Korean garbage mess). MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1553010093302-9B532V6XUCHU48JXPSHZ/13waste11.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - House Committee issues show cause order vs importer of garbage from South Korea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Activists from the Ecowaste Coalition, an environmental NGO, stage a rally at the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on Sunday, 13 January 2019, where 51 container vans containing 1,400 tons (1.27 million kilos) of garbage  are being shipped back to Pyeongtaek, South Korea their port of origin. But 5,100 tons of waste still remain in Tagoloan, awaiting shipment back to South Korea. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/3/12/waste-management-dysfunctional-at-most-shipbreaking-yards</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-03-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Waste management dysfunctional at most shipbreaking yards</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Waste management dysfunctional at most shipbreaking yards</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/3/12/india-extends-plastic-waste-import-ban</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - India extends plastic waste import ban</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/3/7/india-bans-imports-of-waste-plastic-to-tackle-environmental-crisis</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/3/7/govt-puts-complete-ban-on-import-of-solid-plastic-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/27/dynamic-lifecycle-innovations-obtains-e-stewards-certification</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-02-27</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/27/japan-to-cosponsor-proposed-ban-on-dirty-plastic-waste-trade</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/12/sony-electronics-receives-distinguished-e-stewards-enterprise-designation</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-02-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Sony Electronics Receives Distinguished e-Stewards Enterprise Designation</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Sony Electronics Receives Distinguished e-Stewards Enterprise Designation</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/6/gps-trackers-discover-illegal-e-waste-exports-to-africa-and-asia</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-02-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Watchdog Group Uses GPS Trackers to Discover Illegal Electronic Waste Exports from Europe to Africa and Asia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Following GPS signals across the globe -- here is the location where an LCD deployed in Germany ended up -- in a equipment smashing operation outside of Bangkok in Thailand. Copyright BAN 2018.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/6/stone-castle-ceo-sentenced-to-prison</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-02-07</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1549557792473-75PPK1RS1D1PAC6BVUOI/Stone-Castle-CRT-glass-web-768x512.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Stone Castle CEO sentenced to prison</image:title>
      <image:caption>A photo from court records shows CRT glass stored outside Stone Castle Recycling’s Clearfield, Utah facility.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/2/7/chemours-is-using-the-us-as-an-unregulated-dump-for-europes-toxic-genx-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-02-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Chemours is using the U.S. as an Unregulated Dump for Europe's Toxic GENX Waste</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/1/15/philippines-returns-tons-of-trash-to-south-korea</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-01-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Philippines Returns Tons of Trash to South Korea</image:title>
      <image:caption>A customs official opens one of dozens of container vans filled with household waste at a port in Tagoloan, the southern Philippines province of Misamis Oriental, Jan. 13, 2019.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1547594802834-L0R4NOEJ6GXY8XVOFU48/190114-PH-SK-trash-1.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Philippines Returns Tons of Trash to South Korea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Activists with the Ecowaste Coalition, an environmental group, stage a rally in front of container vans loaded with household waste at the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriential province, southern Philippines, Jan. 13, 2019. (Froilan Gallardo/BenarNews)</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/1/4/interpols-30-days-at-sea-identifies-offenders-in-marine-pollution-crime</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-01-04</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1546645226918-3PJ0597NI0FJX4D4ACBT/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - Interpol's 30 Days at Sea identifies offenders in marine pollution crime</image:title>
      <image:caption>People living near Matahari Terbit Beach in Sanur, Bali, work together to clear trash, mainly plastic bottles and food packaging, from the beach. (JP/Zul Trio Anggono)</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2019/1/3/south-korea-told-to-get-trash-out-of-philippines-by-next-week-the-philippine-daily-inquirer-asianewsnetwork</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - South Korea told to get trash out of Philippines by next week - The Philippine Daily Inquirer | #AsiaNewsNetwork</image:title>
      <image:caption>At a press conference in Quezon City on Wednesday, members of EcoWaste Coalition call for the swift return to South Korea of some 6,500 tons of garbage illegally transported to the Philippines in July last year. A customs official announced that the first of two shipments—which slipped through Tagoloan port in Misamis Oriental province—must be returned to their country of origin by Jan. 9. INQUIRER PHOTO/ JAM STA ROSA</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/12/10/cascade-asset-management-addresses-digital-equity</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-12-10</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/12/5/e-scrap-plastics-we-need-to-press-the-reset-button</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-12-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - E-scrap plastics: ‘We need to press the reset button’</image:title>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/16/china-import-ban-less-cash-in-exported-trash</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/15/denr-return-of-korean-toxic-waste-may-take-time</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/15/eu-reminds-stakeholders-of-waste-shipment-rules-under-no-deal-brexit</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/15/government-urged-to-go-after-those-behind-sokor-trash</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/15/environmental-watchdogs-gps-trackers-lead-to-federal-conspiracy-charges-against-washington-state-recycler</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environmental Watchdog's GPS Trackers Lead to Federal Conspiracy Charges Against Washington State Recycler</image:title>
      <image:caption>BAN's Jim Puckett documenting Total Reclaim's exports in Hong Kong electronics junk yard to prove that their export denials were false. Note Total Reclaim's Earth Day collection event stickers. Copyright PBS. March 2016.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environmental Watchdog's GPS Trackers Lead to Federal Conspiracy Charges Against Washington State Recycler</image:title>
      <image:caption>Location in Hong Kong where illegal laborers smashed apart Total Reclaim's LCD monitors with no protection or knowledge of the hazardous mercury exposure from the broken backlights. Copyright BAN. March 2016.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/15/ban-sued-for-defamation-over-latest-exports-report</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/5/e-waste-chokes-southeast-asia</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - E-waste chokes Southeast Asia</image:title>
      <image:caption>A stack of computer scrap at Scrap Computing Trading, one of Malaysia's leading private electronics recycling companies, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP Photo)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - E-waste chokes Southeast Asia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Source: Various sources</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/11/1/federal-rule-would-restrict-us-e-scrap-exports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-01</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/29/two-years-since-pakistans-gadani-ship-breaking-disaster-why-are-workers-still-dying</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-10-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Two Years Since Pakistan’s Gadani Ship-breaking Disaster, Why Are Workers Still Dying?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ship-breaking workers are often desperate for work no others will do, even if wages are slightly higher than the average sweatshop job. Photo: Studio Fasching</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/26/why-the-worlds-recycling-system-stopped-working</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-10-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Why the world’s recycling system stopped working</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bantar Gebang landfill dump, near Jakarta © Kadir van Lohuizen/NOOR</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/26/bis-considers-regulating-electronic-waste-exports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-10-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/16/samsung-partners-with-basel-action-network-to-enhance-e-waste-tracking</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-10-30</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/10/gps-trackers-reveal-more-canadian-e-waste-exported-to-developing-countries</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/10/4/e-stewards-electronics-recycling-certification-adopts-naid-aaa-data-security-certification</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-10-17</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/9/6/support-grows-to-control-plastic-waste-in-international-trade-treaty</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-02-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/23/we-know-the-wrong-way-to-deal-with-e-waste-but-what-should-we-do-instead</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-23</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - We Know the Wrong Way to Deal With e-Waste. But What Should We Do Instead?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Photo © iStockphoto.com/baranozdemir</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/17/thailand-to-ban-e-waste-plastic-imports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-17</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Thailand to ban e-waste, plastic imports</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thai National Deputy Police Chief Wirachai Songmetta, centre with white gloves, law-enforcement officers and journalists walks past a pile of mobile batteries during a raid in Bangkok on Thursday. Photo: AP</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Thailand to ban e-waste, plastic imports</image:title>
      <image:caption>A dump in Mae Sot, north-west Thailand where locals sift through rubbish looking for plastics they can recycle. Photo: Brendan Esposito</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/12/bike-share-companies-accused-of-creating-e-waste-mountains</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-09-12</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/9/when-green-is-not-bikeshare-companies-called-out-for-dumping-e-waste-bikes</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-10</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/8/gps-trackers-reveal-australian-e-waste-exported-to-developing-countries</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-11-16</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1533768354125-X3922ZASV2CK1E8A5X8T/imgpsh_fullsize.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>News - Archive - GPS Trackers Reveal Australian e-Waste Exported to Developing Countries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bags of imported e-waste, and barrels of chemicals used to crudely process it found at hidden Thai facility located by BAN's GPS tracked device delivered to Officeworks store in Brisbane. Copyright Basel Action Network, July 2018.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/8/7/asian-states-urged-to-sign-treaty-to-avoid-tidal-wave-of-foreign-trash</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Asian states urged to sign treaty to avoid ‘tidal wave’ of foreign trash</image:title>
      <image:caption>People try to feed a turtle found in Chon Buri before it died on June 6. An autopsy later found loads of plastic and rubber bands in its stomach. Photo: ReReef Thailand</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Asian states urged to sign treaty to avoid ‘tidal wave’ of foreign trash</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rubbish is seen on a Bangkok street. Thailand has struggled for years to deal with the vast amount of plastic waste it generates. That is why news of tons of foreign waste being imported into the country has created so much anxiety. Photo: Rajat Sethi</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/7/12/e-waste-offers-an-economic-opportunity-as-well-as-toxicity</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-07-12</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/7/12/chinas-solid-waste-ban-clogs-southeast-asia</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/7/11/eri-becomes-first-electronics-recycler-to-adopt-basel-action-networks-eartheye-e-waste-tracking-system</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2019-03-12</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/7/3/known-violator-of-hong-kong-environmental-laws-is-a-tenant-at-hong-kongs-ecopark</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-07-05</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/6/26/thailand-just-the-first-country-to-be-hit-by-the-coming-tidal-wave-of-western-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/6/21/environmental-group-offers-businesses-a-way-to-track-their-e-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-06-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environmental Group Offers Businesses a Way to Track Their e-Waste</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Environmental Group Offers Businesses a Way to Track Their e-Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>EarthEye has been created so any business that cares, can know precisely where their wastes, products or assets are at any time. Copyright BAN.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/6/19/dell-and-basel-action-network-team-up-to-track-e-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-06-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - BAN Teams-Up with Dell to Track Electronic Waste</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chris Brandt of BAN's EarthEye program installing a tracker in a printer. Chris recently spent two days in Austin, installing EarthEye trackers for Dell Computers. Copyright BAN.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/5/23/waste-tourism-is-thailand-becoming-the-new-e-waste-dumping-ground</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-07-05</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/4/19/earth-day-begins-in-your-drawer-or-closet</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-04-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - EARTH DAY BEGINS IN YOUR DRAWER or CLOSET</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/2/23/dispose-e-waste-with-care-hong-kong-to-start-producer-pays-scheme-for-70000-tonnes-generated-in-city-annually</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Dispose e-waste with care: Hong Kong to start ‘producer pays’ scheme for 70,000 tonnes generated in city annually</image:title>
      <image:caption>Washing machines are included in the long-awaited recycling scheme. Photo: Edward Wong</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Dispose e-waste with care: Hong Kong to start ‘producer pays’ scheme for 70,000 tonnes generated in city annually</image:title>
      <image:caption>From August, sellers of old appliances in the scheme must display recycling labels on the items. Photo: Felix Wong</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/2/8/in-my-opinion-addressing-reactions-to-e-scrap-tracking</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2018/1/17/watchdog-groups-gps-trackers-find-certified-fake-recyclers-in-texas-georgia-and-florida-sending-e-waste-to-asia</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-01-18</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/10/20/in-my-opinion-real-data-to-solve-a-real-problem</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/9/19/new-program-to-provide-low-cost-ethically-refurbished-computers-to-digitally-disadvantaged-students-and-families</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-10-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - New Program to Provide Low-Cost, Ethically Refurbished Computers to Digitally Disadvantaged Students and Families</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/9/6/watchdog-groups-gps-trackers-find-more-fake-electronics-recyclers-sending-e-waste-to-asia</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-09-08</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/9/1/hazardous-materials-seized-in-largest-global-operation-against-illegal-waste</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-09-01</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/7/21/hong-kong-recyclers-calling-for-delay-in-meeting-new-environmental-requirements-must-be-told-an-emphatic-no</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-08-19</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/6/22/notorious-60-minutes-e-scrap-executives-re-sentenced</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/3/16/hewlett-packard-answers-the-call-for-e-trash-transparency</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-03-16</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/3/13/watchdog-calls-for-fixing-washington-states-leaky-e-waste-law-to-stop-illegal-exports</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-03-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/1/27/the-green-hat</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2017-01-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - The Green Hat</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/1/11/where-do-your-electronics-go-to-die-this-seattle-man-knows-and-hes-doing-something-about-it</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/1/10/looks-are-deceiving-in-chinese-town-that-was-us-e-waste-dumping-site</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2017/1/4/proposed-waste-regulation-violates-chiles-toxic-waste-trade-treaty-obligations</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Proposed Waste Regulation Violates Chile's Toxic Waste Trade Treaty Obligations</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some Chilean business interests want to export toxic car batteries to Peru to smaller scale and potentially polluting smelters such as the one depicted here.  A new law is proposing allowing the export from Chile to neighboring Peru.  This law would undermine Chile’s Basel Convention obligations.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/12/21/9wa553l2mubp8g1fzobad9o29wr95h</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2018-08-27</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/10/13/chemical-waste-allegedly-found-stored-in-nine-hong-kong-recycling-sites-without-approval</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Chemical waste allegedly found stored in nine Hong Kong recycling sites without approval</image:title>
      <image:caption>(UNDATED PHOTO) A joint operation was held between September 26 and October 4 to conduct surprise inspections at a number of waste recycling sites in Hung Lung Hang in the North District in the New Territories. Photo: ISD</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/9/15/secret-tracking-project-finds-that-your-old-electronic-waste-gets-exported-to-developing-countries</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/9/12/electronics-recycler-fined-444000-for-illegally-disposing-of-dangerous-waste-overseas</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/7/27/obama-still-has-time-to-curb-a-toxic-waste-crisis-caused-by-gadgets</loc>
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    <lastmod>2022-05-26</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/7/8/annotated-comments-by-ban-on-mr-wong-kam-sings-remarks</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-07-08</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/6/20/watchdog-tracker-data-implicates-more-washington-state-recyclers-exporting-the-publics-toxic-electronic-waste-to-china</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-06-20</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/6/19/global-watchdog-hong-kongs-epd-is-wrong-about-the-basel-convention-and-the-harm-that-e-waste-junkyards-are-causing-in-new-territories</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-06-20</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/5/9/goodwill-and-dell-inc-exposed-as-exporters-of-us-publics-toxic-electronic-waste-to-developing-countries</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-05-09</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/5/5/total-reclaim-certification-revoked</loc>
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    <lastmod>2016-05-06</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/2/8/epa-praises-e-stewards-for-the-first-time</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-05-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - EPA Praises e-Stewards for the First Time</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/2/1/best-buy-rolls-back-its-environmental-commitments</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2016-02-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Best Buy Rolls Back its Environmental Commitments</image:title>
      <image:caption>Old electronics dropped off by Best Buy customers await recycling. December 2015.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/1/26/exporting-deception-continued</loc>
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    <lastmod>2016-01-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Exporting Deception, Continued</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Exporting Deception, Continued</image:title>
      <image:caption>In Ghana, boys burn wires to extract copper.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Exporting Deception, Continued</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/1/22/dead-us-ship-ends-on-indian-shipbreaking-beach</loc>
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    <lastmod>2016-02-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Dead US Ship Ends on Indian Shipbreaking Beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Dead US Ship Ends on Indian Shipbreaking Beach</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two shipbreakers, a child and an adult, tear a ship apart on a beach in Chittagong, Bangladesh, similar to Alang, India. Copyright Rube Dao, FIDH</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/1/12/lebanon-plans-to-dump-garbage-but-sierra-leone-rejects-deal</loc>
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    <lastmod>2016-01-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Lebanon Plans to Dump Garbage - But Sierra Leone Rejects Deal</image:title>
      <image:caption>Credit: www.ibtimes.co.uk</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Archive - Lebanon Plans to Dump Garbage - But Sierra Leone Rejects Deal</image:title>
      <image:caption>Credit: Aljazeera</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New Industrial Park units for circuit board cooking, showing new chimney system. Copyright BAN 2015.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Close-up of Intercon Solutions' sign touting their Certifications. 2014. Copyright BAN.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518634212-4KBEMMHIRB0DSB1KNQX4/AdobeStock_247166157.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>United Kingdom Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/turkey-import-data</loc>
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    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-16</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613519025016-V09XD3GV68E8O9FUOEPP/AdobeStock_247166077.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Turkey Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/thailand-import-data</loc>
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    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-16</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518983681-BE4732IHX7F9YJMF4HR9/AdobeStock_247166078.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Thailand Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/malaysia-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-24</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615913896716-2WIWYYRCDGEQFFGE09RR/AdobeStock_271087246+%281%29.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Malaysia Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/indonesia-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-07-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615915496763-SUZF9N42OXWLDSFH322F/indonesia-flag-wide.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Indonesia Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/canada-export-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-10-23</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518671894-P8GKY3GB4EGFX0FM356H/AdobeStock_326757881.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Canada Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/global-export-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-07-08</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614041933307-XHFQHESXFBKUS0X0C17D/AdobeStock_295107640_Editorial_Use_Only-wide.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Global Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/hong-kong-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-16</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615911109557-M715XXJM1B7OO8BNOHVE/AdobeStock_247166505.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Hong Kong Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/vietnam-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-03-16</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615911428642-6YU8BJFF6Q13FG1DCR9S/AdobeStock_247165991.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Vietnam Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/latin-america-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-08-07</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1654723717663-WFC5W682ORX5AQ66AEXU/7547_latinamericamap_857046.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Latin America Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-transparency-project-deployment-partner-registration</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-07-13</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/the-atlas-of-plastic-waste-entry-form</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-01-11</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1637608922320-KQEFJJASV4DH34NF5AZC/c097a208-malaysia-plastic.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Atlas of Plastic Waste Entry Form</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/india-import-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-08-07</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1637621048627-L6LYS4KXNONGOM8GJ485/Indian_Flag_in_the_sky.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>India Import Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-transparency-project-hub/the-atlas-of-plastic-waste</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-11-25</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1639501258039-10TDSXR09YM9PE27Z3GP/image-redo-2.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Atlas of Plastic Waste</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/a04934df-1b3d-4d72-8d19-21344f3850a9/c097a208-malaysia-plastic.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Atlas of Plastic Waste - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-transparency-project-hub/the-atlas-of-plastic-waste-thank-you</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2021-11-30</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1637622323294-VZNF7MCCOQK6X1SYCKCK/image-idea.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Atlas of Plastic Waste - Thank You</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/a04934df-1b3d-4d72-8d19-21344f3850a9/c097a208-malaysia-plastic.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The Atlas of Plastic Waste - Thank You - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/germany-export-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-21</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1642522765099-LF5N298GLONJCLH2KX0O/100263306-germany_flag_gettyp.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Germany Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-transparency-project-hub/trade-data-2</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-02-14</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1612912952094-Y4CWNY6EU1LF21I41RUO/Plastic-for-recycling-edit.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614041983739-RVKRJ6VFSJMSY2V49C81/AdobeStock_295107640_Editorial_Use_Only-wide.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613500280527-YVA5CX5NYVAXKVTEF5ZE/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.31.04+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613498816666-LD64UVHXPBZQ8P6F2HAA/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613500093248-MIT8H3Q20Z6WLMPXZ685/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.28.01+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/d6b51d7c-e04c-4771-bd59-296b9220ea7d/100263306-germany_flag_gettyp+-+small.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613498899840-9KT964QUII8P5EDFTZ8F/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613499209357-X36URJBSYII8SPTTYQEF/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.11.50+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615912992649-N8FGLJJC0GDBJJ0832R7/Honk-Kong.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615912874222-G1GMN93RT36LAP768U0U/AdobeStock_99203363.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615913058058-GY1BAPL2TT4V9YLKQ9H2/Turkey-Flag.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615915003892-DW0FS2ZV8WN2CSDOVC8H/2019_01_17_63280_1547716350._large.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615913492660-TCGH9616QAPC8K6NNH8U/thailand-flag-waving_1498-64.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615913548077-7A8Y8BW6IGC4N3RWHOIU/vietnam-flag-waving_1498-68.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/700f83ed-0774-4986-adec-aab953e63b9a/Indian_Flag_in_the_sky.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1615913322403-RUW25AMBX3840FDFPS4O/malayasian-flag1.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/usa-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-07-29</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518824787-6X2E3ZYZF8HTAZAIO6TT/AdobeStock_247165737.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>US Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/us-export-data-monthly-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2022-02-14</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1654718679276-42NW7JUXOFQDCXI6T2JA/7547_latinamericamap_857046.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>U.S. Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/global-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-08-15</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614041933307-XHFQHESXFBKUS0X0C17D/AdobeStock_295107640_Editorial_Use_Only-wide.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Global Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/canada-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-02-20</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518671894-P8GKY3GB4EGFX0FM356H/AdobeStock_326757881.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Canada Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/eu-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-07-08</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518724457-WDJ8DIKOK0LAJ4PEFFH6/AdobeStock_260177674.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>European Union Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/germany-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-03-12</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1642522765099-LF5N298GLONJCLH2KX0O/100263306-germany_flag_gettyp.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Germany Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/japan-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-02-19</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613506661385-67Y7PAC8VW1E4DKLRHTC/AdobeStock_247165885.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Japan Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-project-hub/trade-data/uk-export-data-annual-summary</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-02-18</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613518634212-4KBEMMHIRB0DSB1KNQX4/AdobeStock_247166157.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>United Kingdom Export Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.ban.org/plastic-waste-transparency-project-hub/trade-data</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2024-04-22</lastmod>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1612912952094-Y4CWNY6EU1LF21I41RUO/Plastic-for-recycling-edit.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1614041983739-RVKRJ6VFSJMSY2V49C81/AdobeStock_295107640_Editorial_Use_Only-wide.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613500280527-YVA5CX5NYVAXKVTEF5ZE/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.31.04+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/d6b51d7c-e04c-4771-bd59-296b9220ea7d/100263306-germany_flag_gettyp+-+small.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613498816666-LD64UVHXPBZQ8P6F2HAA/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613500093248-MIT8H3Q20Z6WLMPXZ685/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+10.28.01+AM.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/8ff777f9-d76b-4b6d-9f8b-f51db2cb01fc/download.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/558f1c27e4b0927589e0edad/1613498899840-9KT964QUII8P5EDFTZ8F/image-asset.jpeg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plastic Waste Trade Data</image:title>
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