The Cabinet has approved a ban on imports of plastic waste from 2025 onwards.→

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Source: https://www.earththailand.org/th/article/6817

Author: Editorial Office of the Ecological Restoration Foundation (EARTH), translated from Thai

The cabinet meeting yesterday (February 21, 2023) approved measures to ban the import of plastic waste from 2025 onwards – EARTH invites you to follow up on the actual results. Ready to warn... Must be careful that there will be a "bulge" in the plastic waste. another kind? Deputy government spokesman revealed yesterday that the cabinet meeting has approved measures to ban the import of plastic waste from foreign countries. At the end of December 31, 2024 onwards, there will be a waiver of importing plastic scraps to industrial factories in the free zone. and factories in general areas for 2 years before total cancellation in 2025 as detailed below.

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Thailand to ban import of all plastic waste from January 1st, 2025→

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Source: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-to-ban-import-of-all-plastic-waste-from-january-1st-2025/

Author: Thai PBS World

The Thai cabinet decided today (Tuesday) to ban the import of all plastic waste, effective from January 1st, 2025. Additionally, the import of plastic waste this year and next will be regulated. For the 14 recycling plants located in the tax-free zone, the amount of waste to be imported this year must not exceed their combined production capacity, which is 372,994 tonnes.

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The US intensifies the colonialism of plastic garbage in Mexico: they increase their exports of plastic waste and transfer dirty technologies→

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Source: https://www.greenpeace.org/mexico/noticia/51869/eua-intensifica-el-colonialismo-de-basura-plastica-en-mexico-aumentan-sus-exportaciones-de-desechos-plasticos-y-trasladan-tecnologias-sucias/

Author: Greenpeace Mexico, translated from Spanish

Mexico City on February 13, 2023 . The American company Direct Pack Recycling has established a new PET recovery/recycling plant in Mexicali, Baja California for the manufacture of pellets and thermoformed packaging (cups, lids, trays), financed by The Recycling Partnership coalition, which clearly means the intensification of colonialism through the plastic garbage that arrives from the United States to Mexico.  

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Companies that import plastic waste to Latin America have been denounced for environmental damage→

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Source: https://ojo-publico.com/4244/importadoras-basura-plastica-denunciadas-por-danos-ambientales

Author: Monica Cerbon, translated from Spanish

Some of the companies that received the most plastic waste in the region, most of them American or European, have been accused of damaging the environment in various countries for their treatment of similar products. Interpol warns that this industry hides criminal risks. Only Peru entered 62,100 tons of plastic garbage between 2012 and 2022. An investigation by the Cross-Border Investigative Network of OjoPúblico and PopLab.

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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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Coles and Woolworths ordered to dump more than 5,200 tonnes of recycled soft plastic in landfill→

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/03/coles-and-woolworths-ordered-to-dump-more-than-5200-tonnes-of-recycled-soft-plastic-in-landfill

Author: Henry Belot

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have been ordered to dump more than 5,200 tonnes of soft plastic – currently being stored at warehouses across New South Wales – into landfill. The NSW Environment Protection Authority is concerned that huge amounts of soft plastic are being dangerously stored at 15 locations due to the suspension of botched recycling initiative REDcycle. REDcycle announced in November that it would pause collections at Woolworths and Coles after reports it was stockpiling plastic rather than recycling it.

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Brazil Deliberately Sinks their Toxic Aircraft Carrier in the Atlantic Ocean→

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Source: https://conta.cc/3JFF7HT

Brussels, Belgium. February 4, 2023. Last night, the Brazilian Navy, after months of refusing to allow its old aircraft carrier SÃO PAULO to safely return to a Naval base, detonated explosives placed on the vessel’s massive hull to send it to the bottom of the sea, claiming it was a danger to the Brazilian coastline due to its structural condition.

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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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Marinha recebe proposta de venda do porta-aviões, mas deve afundá-lo amanhã→

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Source: https://www.uol.com.br/nossa/colunas/historias-do-mar/2023/01/31/marinha-recebe-proposta-de-venda-do-porta-avioes-mas-deve-afunda-lo-amanha.htm

Author: Jorge de Souza, Colunista do UOL

A Marinha do Brasil recebeu, no início da tarde de ontem, uma proposta de compra do ex-porta-aviões São Paulo, que há quase seis meses vaga no mar e que tenciona afundar...

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Brazil Set to Violate Three International Environmental Treaties in Sinking PCB-Laden Aircraft Carrier in the Atlantic→

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Source: https://conta.cc/3HKvCpE

Brussels, Belgium. January 31, 2023. As feared by the coalition of environmental and labour rights NGOs following the fate of the former aircraft carrier SÃO PAULO, the Brazilian Navy has seized the massive 265 meter-long ship and announced the intention to sink it in the Atlantic, instead of allowing it to be recycled as initially planned just a few months ago when it was sold to a Turkish breaking yard.

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MPs “surprised and disappointed” as government rejects key plastic waste recommendations→

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Source: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news/175668/mps-surprised-and-disappointed-as-government-rejects-key-plastic-waste-recommendations/

Author: U.K. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has expressed surprise and disappointment after the government disagreed with key recommendations in its report on dealing with the growing problem of plastic waste. The cross-party MPs’ parliamentary scrutiny body conducted an extensive inquiry beginning in July 2021. The headline recommendation of its report, published in November 2022, called for a ban on the export of all plastic waste – a large amount of which ends up being illegally dumped – by the end of 2027.  

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Judge: Company must pay for rejected exports→

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Source: https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2023/01/24/judge-company-must-pay-for-rejected-exports/

Author: Marissa Heffernan

A federal judge ruled that a Burnaby, British Columbia company owes an international shipping company $4.3 million Canadian dollars over plastics shipments rejected by the Thai government, the second such suit brought against the company. That’s about $3.2 million USD. Hapag-Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft took legal action against materials exporter Golden Trust Trading on March 18, 2022 after the shipping giant said it transported 33 containers of PET, PP and PVC film bales from Vancouver to Bangkok in spring 2019 that were rejected by the Thai government.

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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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Will the death ship São Paulo sink into the Atlantic?→

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Source: https://www.evrensel.net/haber/480097/olum-gemisi-s-o-paulo-atlantike-mi-batirilacak

Author: Ramis Sağlam, translated from Turkish

Former Brazilian Aircraft Carrier São Paulo, which contains hazardous toxic waste materials, was captured by the Brazilian navy on Friday. The Brazilian navy made an official statement, claiming that the ship should be moved to the open sea as much as possible. This statement said, “Will the ship be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean?” raised the question.

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