Rich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries, data suggests→

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Source: https://grist.org/accountability/rich-countries-illegally-exporting-plastic-trash/

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.

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The battle against global e-waste dumping reaches tipping point→

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Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/the-battle-against-global-e-waste-dumping-reaches-tipping-point/47445264?utm_campaign=teaser-in-channel&utm_content=o&utm_medium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch

Author: Anand Chandrasekhar

Switzerland is pushing to modify an international accord so that all electric and electronic waste shipped abroad gets prior consent from destination countries. Not everyone is on board.

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Environmental groups move quickly and block the export of German plastic waste to Vietnam→

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Environmental groups move quickly and block the export of German plastic waste to Vietnam

Waste shipment authorities and COSCO shipping lines responded swiftly to a letter sent to them in the Greek port of Piraeus, early this morning by the Basel Action Network (BAN) as part of a coalition effort to prevent European wastes from being exported.

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The EU agrees: the recycling of ships is a matter of global environmental justice→

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In its proposal for a new regulation on waste shipments published last week, the European Commission surprised many observers by rejecting their earlier romance with the Hong Kong Convention and return to the Basel Convention's affirmation that the Global South should not become the world's dumping ground for hazardous wastes, even when those wastes are ships.

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