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 ...

Türkiye has become a major destination for plastic waste recycling, notably from Europe and the U.K. Most of this scrap heads to the roughly 180 waste facilities handling plastic in Adana province.

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.

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh ASEAN has become an attractive destination for petrochemical expansion and plastic waste exports, given its proximity to ...

A new economic assessment argues that Britain could halt plastic waste exports within the decade, rebuild domestic recycling capacity and capture major financial gains. The Guardian reports that the ...

Two brothers from Bihar left high-paying jobs to build a startup that converts plastic waste into furniture now used globally ...

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) ...

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 ...