MPs told how to curb plastics waste exports→
/Author: Mark Smulian
Environmental Services Association (ESA) executive director Jacob Hayler has put a five-point plan to MPs to curb plastic waste exports.
Read MoreCriminals clean up by hiding waste among recycling that Britain sendsabroad→
/Author: Emma Gatten, Environment Editor
Only around 5 per cent of recycling exports are checked before they leave the country, making it easy for criminals to dump waste abroad, MPs have been told.
Read MoreWar on plastic waste gets $60 million budget boost→
/Author: Brandon How
The government’s recycling development fund will receive a $60 million boost in the federal budget, with the national science agency to also launch a plastics recycling research program.
Read MoreNGO wants Maersk to follow suit and drop shipping of plastic waste→
/Author: Frederik Timm Bensten
Recently, the world's third largest container shipping company CMA CGM announced that from 1 June 2022, it will no longer ship plastic waste on its ships. That example should Maersk follow, according to Plastic Change.
Read MoreRush of lawsuits over plastic waste expected after ‘historic’ deal→
/Author: Isabella Kaminski
A series of lawsuits against plastic producers and governments is expected after a “historic” international agreement on waste, say legal experts. Last week, world leaders agreed to draw up a legally binding treaty over the next two years that covered the full lifecycle of plastics from production to disposal.
Read MoreCanada must do more to control plastic waste exports, Environment Minister says→
/Author: Mia Rabson
OTTAWA -- In the year since new rules to slow global exports of plastic waste took effect, Canada's shipments rose by more than 13 per cent, and most of it is going to the United States with no knowledge of where it ultimately ends up.
Read MoreUS scrap plastic exports continue years-long decline→
/Author: Jared Paben
U.S. scrap plastic exports fell by 12% in 2021, even though some countries, such as India and Mexico, brought in a whole lot more material. The U.S. exported 1.21 billion pounds of scrap plastics in 2021, down from 1.38 billion pounds the year before, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau export data.
Read MoreThe World Is Awash in Plastic. Nations Plan a Treaty to Fix That.→
/Author: Hiroko Tabuchi
With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed on Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive growth of plastic pollution. The agreement commits nations to work on a broad and legally binding treaty that would not only aim to improve recycling and clean up the world’s plastic waste, but would encompass curbs on plastics production itself. That could put measures like a ban on single-use plastics, a major driver of waste, on the table.
Read MoreAfter much praised waste export ban, Australia under fire for shipping plastic trash as 'fuel'→
/Author(s): Joe Brock and Kanupriya Kapoor
Australia will allow plastic trash to be shipped overseas and burned as fuel under a law introduced last year that banned the export of some plastic waste, the environment minister's office said, prompting accusations from critics of hypocrisy.
Read MoreShipping lines urged to stop all plastic waste exports→
/Author: Jun Concepcion
Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk, MSC, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Evergreen and Cosco have been cited among the largest shippers of plastic waste. Green groups have called on shipping lines to completely stop plastic waste exports as they cause environmental and social harm to receiving countries.
Read MoreItaly trucks waste to protected area after return from Tunisia→
/Author: Arab News
A huge dump of illegal rubbish has been trucked from the Italian port city of Salerno to Persano, a rural village next to a nature sanctuary, after it was returned by Tunisian authorities following a two-year feud over who should deal with it.
Read MoreTunisian NGOs triumph in David-vs-Goliath toxic waste battle with Italy→
/Author: Sophie Gorman
Tunisia was victorious this weekend in a protracted David versus Goliath rubbish battle against Italy. On Saturday, a consignment of 7,900 tonnes of toxic waste illegally sent by Italy to Tunisia was sent back where it came from after an almost two-year legal wrangle spearheaded by small local environmental NGOs.
Read MoreTunisia signs agreement to return illegally imported toxic waste back to Italy→
/Author: Middle East Monitor
The Tunisian Ministry of Environment said, on Monday, that it had signed an agreement with Italy to return illegally imported toxic waste. A Tunisian company had imported more than 280 containers of waste illegally from Italy in 2020 and falsely claimed that the household waste – barred from import under Tunisia law – was, in fact, plastic scrap to be recycled.
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