Brazil Says It’s Started Sinking an Old Warship, Hazardous Material and All→

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/climate/brazil-aircraft-carrier-sao-paulo.html

Author: Manuela Andreoni

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian Navy said on Friday evening it had begun an operation to sink the decommissioned aircraft carrier São Paulo, packed with an undetermined amount of asbestos and other toxic materials, about 220 miles off the country’s northeastern coast.

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Brazil Wants to Abandon a 34,000-Ton Ship at Sea. It Would be an Environmental Disaster→

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Source: https://time.com/6251526/brazil-abandoned-ship-environmental-disaster/

Author: Ciara Nugent

Somewhere in the South Atlantic ocean right now, a 34,000-ton, 870-ft. aircraft carrier is floating aimlessly on the waves. The vessel, caught in an international dispute over its toxic contents, is about to become one of the biggest pieces of trash in the ocean. The São Paulo, as the ship is known, has been stuck in limbo for five months. Brazil’s navy sold the 60-year-old vessel—the largest in its fleet—for scrap to a Turkish shipyard in 2021, and in August 2022, it set off for Turkey from a naval base in Rio de Janeiro.

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With no port to dock, an aircraft carrier that was stationary in Pernambuco now roams the sea→

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Source: https://www.folhape.com.br/noticias/sem-porto-para-atracar-porta-avioes-que-estava-parado-em-pernambuco/255430/

Author: Folha de Pernambuco, translated from Portuguese

Former flagship of the French Navy, the aircraft carrier Foch , renamed São Paulo in 2000 when it took on the Brazilian flag, wanders the sea in search of a haven of refuge, under the risk of ending its days at the bottom of the ocean. The Brazilian Navy announced on Friday (20) that it is mooring its old hull, full of asbestos , paint and other toxic waste, at a point in the Atlantic Ocean 315 kilometers from the Brazilian coast , to prevent the ship from drifting.

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Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High?→

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Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122022/chemical-recycling-plastic-solution/

Author: James Bruggers

Diplomats negotiating guidelines for an international convention on hazardous wastes this month in Switzerland debated a new section on the “chemical recycling” of plastic debris fouling the global environment.  The 1989 Basel Convention, which seeks to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes, was updated in 2019 when 187 ratifying nations agreed to place new restrictions on the management and international movement of plastic wastes—and to update the treaty’s technical guidelines.

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