Author: Mitra Nazar
Bags full of finely chopped plastic lie on the side of a provincial road just outside Adana, Turkey. Farmer Izzettin Akman sees it being dumped regularly, often at night. He cut open bags to see what's inside.
Read MoreWaste crime ‘being decriminalised’ say MPs→
/Author: Mark Smulian
A parliamentary committee has condemned the Government's efforts to tackle rising waste crime, describing them as slow, aimless and ineffective. Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair, Labour’s Dame Meg Hillier, said: “Currently [Defra’s] approach to large parts of waste crime is closer to decriminalisation."
Read MoreEnvironmental Groups Claim that New Rules Restricting Plastic Trade are being Ignored→
/Geneva, Switzerland (June 14, 2022) – At the ongoing meeting of the Basel Convention, the Basel Action Network (BAN) and member organizations of the Break Free from Plastic movement (BFFP) in a side event, presented evidence of continued plastic waste trade, that is exported primarily from the rich developed countries to weaker economies, and charged these exporting countries with failing to uphold the agreements to control plastic waste exports made at the Basel Convention in 2019, which came into force on January 1, 2021.
Read MoreTerraCycle accused of recycling failures and consumer misinformation in BBC Panorama revelations→
/Author: Louis Gore-Langton
The ongoing saga of corruption allegations against TerraCycle’s UK operations was brought to a head last night in BBC Panorama’s investigation Recycling: Where Does My Rubbish Go? Company CEO Tom Szaky was confronted with evidence that his UK waste handler is a sanctioned criminal, that his business system’s collection and recycling rates are extremely low, and that the scheme is likely misleading consumers.
Read MoreNew Report Reveals that U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate Has Fallen to 5%-6%→
/Author: Beyond Plastics
On the heels of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s April 29, 2022 announcement of a major investigation of the recycling claims made by the petrochemical and fossil fuel industries, plastics policy and engineering experts are out with new numbers that document the low rate of plastics recycling in the United States.
Read MoreEPA to weigh regulating common plastic as hazardous waste→
/Author: E.A. Crunden
EPA may finally classify a commonly used plastic as hazardous waste, following a long legal struggle with advocates. The Center for Biological Diversity said this afternoon that it has reached a deal with EPA over polyvinyl chloride, more well known as PVC or vinyl, following a decade of back-and-forth.
Read MoreNone of Sainsbury’s flexible plastic recycled in the UK→
/Author: Conor McGlone
None of the flexible plastic waste that Sainsbury’s collects from its customers as part of a controversial nationwide initiative is currently recycled in the UK, the supermarket has admitted. Meanwhile, the UK’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, has announced it is carrying out an audit of the waste exporter employed by both supermarkets to recycle this plastic waste - following an E&T investigation.
Read MoreRich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries, data suggests→
/Author: Joseph WInters
At the beginning of last year, 187 countries took steps to limit the export of plastic trash from wealthy to developing countries. It’s not working as well as they hoped. According to an analysis of global trade data by the nonprofit Basel Action Network, or BAN, violations of a U.N. agreement regulating the international plastic waste trade have been “rampant” over the past year.
Read MoreAnother big shipping line is refusing to export the West’s plastic waste→
/Author: Nicolás Rivero
As of today (April 15), the world’s third largest shipping line, will no longer accept deliveries of scrap plastic on any of its ships. CMA CGM’s ban is a milestone in a global backlash against wealthy nations—especially the US—dumping plastic waste in China and Southeast Asia.
Read MoreCMA CGM tells shippers it won't accept plastic scrap as of April 15→
/Author Alejandra Salgado
CMA CGM will not be accepting "plastic waste" onboard any of CMA CGM Group's vessels starting April 15, according to a customer notice. The carrier made the initial announcement on its decision to ban plastic waste in February during the One Ocean Summit. The company had stated this "landmark decision" would become effective June 1.
Read MoreUK must stop dumping plastic food wrappers and drinks bottles in poor countries, Environment Agency boss says→
/Author Madeleine Cuff
The UK should ban all exports of rubbish to stop plastic food wrappers and broken gadgets polluting the shores of poorer countries, the boss of the Environment Agency will declare on Tuesday.
Read MoreTurkey denies report on plastic waste import from London to Adana→
/Author: DAILY SABAH
Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum denied Thursday the Bloomberg report on alleged plastic waste import from the United Kingdom to Turkey.
Read MoreThree years after plastic waste ban, Environment Ministry allows imported PET bottles for processing→
/Author: Jacob Koshy
After banning the import of plastic waste in 2019, the Environment Ministry has permitted PET Bottles, as plastic waste, to be imported for processing. The decision to rollback the ban was taken last year after representations by several industries in the business of processing waste said there was too little waste available for them in India and this was causing them financial losses.
Read MoreA Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling→
/Author(s): Kit Chellel and Wojciech Moskwa
When the British supermarket chain Tesco Plc first started collecting plastic bags and wrappers from customers to be recycled in March 2021, Caroline Ragueneau was thrilled. She was working as a retail assistant at a Tesco store in southwest England when the first white deposit boxes appeared, promising to turn what’s typically discarded back into something useful.
Read MoreWaste industry joins call for global ban on plastic exports→
/Author: Conor McGlone
Waste industry leaders have joined with environmental campaigners to call for a ban on the export of plastic waste that goes further than the government’s current proposals. Representatives from the UK waste industry this week told a cross-party group of MPs that any ban should be global – and not just cover non-OECD countries as proposed by Defra.
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