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.

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.

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.

Author: Daily FT

Sri Lanka Customs yesterday reshipped the final 45 of the 263 containers filled with waste, which was illegally sent to the country from the UK in 2017.

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.

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.

Author: The Local

Italy will take back some 120,000 tonnes of household waste sent to Tunisia last year, the north African country's environment ministry said.

Author: Dulce Olvera

At the same time that the United States government preaches clean energy and sanctions for illegal fishing, it has turned Mexico into its main plastic garbage can in Latin America after the difficulty of exporting it to Asia due to the pandemic and the restriction of China.

Author: DeAnne Toto

Rodolphe Saadé, chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, headquartered in France, has announced that the shipping line will no longer transport plastic scrap aboard its ships beginning June 1. He made the announcement during the One Ocean Summit organized by France’s President Emmanuel Macron, which was Feb. 9-11.

The CMA CGM Group says t

Author: Mike Foley

Australia wants other countries to ban plastic waste exports and will push for a legally binding international treaty at the United Nations to limit the damage that the “ghostly walls of death” have on the marine environment.

Author: Gil Shochat

In October 2021, a Belgian environmental inspector opened a container at the port of Antwerp that, according to its manifest, was supposed to contain bales of mixed paper waste from Canada. It was one of 20 containers from the Saint-Michel recycling centre in Montreal that were destined for India.

Author(s): Middle East Eye staff

Non-recyclable plastic waste exported illegally from the UK and Germany to Turkey has exposed the city of Adana to toxic chemicals that cause cancer and other diseases in locals, Greenpeace said in a new report this week.