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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it’s also created one of the defining ...