Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellow bags of plastic waste and packaging waste hang on a fence in front of an apartment building. German plastic waste exports ...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify mixed plastic trash as “hazardous waste.” This designation essentially ...

Malaysia says it is no longer accepting plastic waste from a handful of nations, including the U.S., that didn’t ratify the Basel Convention. Malaysia emerged as a major destination for waste from the ...

When you put plastic packaging into your recycling bin, it might be a surprise to learn that the least likely thing to happen is that it will be recycled in the UK. Instead, a huge amount of plastic ...

Following China's 2018 ban on plastic waste imports, European countries have increasingly turned to alternative destinations to offload their waste. Turkey has since emerged as a key route for ...

ASEAN has become an attractive destination for petrochemical expansion and plastic waste exports, given its proximity to China and regional appetite for foreign investment. This will come at high ...

Turkey has been the largest recipient of plastic waste from European countries for five years in a row, according to a new report from Greenpeace Turkey. As the upcoming Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) ...

Children play in a pile of scrap plastic in a village in East Java, Indonesia, while their mother nearby spends the day picking through it for tiny pieces of cardboard to sell back to the paper mill.

Plastic waste is an exploding global problem, with minimal recycling resulting in incineration as a common disposal practice. Shipments of plastic products and plastic waste from the Global North to ...