Canada could stop dumping its garbage on developing countries by initiating an export ban on most categories of plastic waste, including certain recyclables, environmental groups say.

Environmental groups say a bill aiming to ban Canadian plastic waste from being sent abroad to poor countries is missing the wording needed to properly tackle the issue.

Imagine for a moment the world of organized crime in Southeast Asia, and you may picture meth labs, human-trafficking rings, or the billion-dollar trade in endangered species.

PETALING JAYA: The Environment and Water Ministry will investigate a report claiming that a US-based company had sent a shipment of “bales of plastic scrap” to Malaysia last month, says Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.

Data shows that American exporters continue to ship plastic waste overseas, often to poorer countries, even though most of the world has agreed to not accept it. Trash pickers scoured the Bantar Gabang landfill in Indonesia for recyclable plastic last year.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

California is the top exporter of contaminated plastic in the nation, flooding poor countries who lack infrastructure to manage it, confer stakeholders vested in curbing plastic pollution. And the state could be headed for big trouble (not unlike other states, but even more so) as pressure intensifies for policy to end U.S. plastics exports. Yet some of California’s own are among those who are most forcefully pushing to crackdown on shipments leaving their ports.

Tom Eng, Senior Vice President and Head of TOMRA Recycling, provides an overview of some of the recent changes in European and international waste legislation and highlights the implications of these changes for waste operators.

Data obtained by the Basel Action Network (BAN) has shown that US recycling exporters are violating the Basel Convention rules on plastic exports.

Pennsylvania company Owl Electronic Recycling installed e-plastics sortation equipment in response to China’s scrap plastic import ban. That’s proved beneficial for the latest market disruption restricting the scrap plastic trade.

Recent customs data obtained by the Basel Action Network (BAN) reveals that US exporters, global shipping lines, and the US government are all violating the new 2021global rules established by the Basel Convention to prevent indiscriminate dumping and pollution arising from the plastic waste trade in developing countries.

Recent customs data obtained by the Basel Action Network (BAN) reveals that US exporters, global shipping lines, and the US government are all violating the new 2021 global rules established by the Basel Convention…

Drawing on a powerful new database that tracks and traces the plastic life cycle, UNCTAD shows where countries can apply trade policy pressure to reduce pollution.

We all know it's wrong to toss your rubbish into the ocean or another natural place. But it might surprise you to learn some plastic waste ends up in the environment, even when we thought it was being recycled.

Environmental groups have called for the intervention of the European Commission after an Italian company was caught illegally dumping municipal waste in Tunisia, with the government in Rome failing to take action.

Stringent restrictions imposed by Turkey on plastic waste imports are leading to “widespread confusion” in the waste sector and could lead to the stockpiling of poor quality mixed plastics in the UK, ENDS has been told.

The age of excess packaging is coming to an end and businesses need to get with the programme, according to a new report released on Thursday.

In one of the largest settlements of its kind in recent S.C. history, a company accused by authorities of polluting the ocean with plastic agreed Wednesday to pay $1 million to the two Charleston-based environmental nonprofits that had been suing it.

Le Réseau Tunisie Verte et 8 ONGs internationales se sont associés pour exiger le retour immédiat de 282 conteneurs remplis de déchets municipaux mixtes qui ont été illégalement exportés de la région italienne de Campanie vers le port de Sousse en Tunisie entre mai et juillet 2020.

The Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) Secretariat has released five publications that outline how the electronics, textiles, food, plastics, and capital equipment sectors can increase their circularity. Comprising the ‘Circular Economy Action Agenda,’ the reports serve as a rallying call for businesses, governments, researchers, consumers, and civil society to work together.