Seattle, WA, November 12, 2020 – Recently tabulated trade statistics from the United States Commerce Department show that the US continues to export about 28,000 metric tons per month of its plastic waste to developing countries. These shipments to countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam continue unabated despite the fact that the vast majority […]
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US Objects to New Global Rules to Better Control Exports of Contaminated and Mixed Plastic Waste
Seattle, WA. July 15, 2019 – The US is the sole member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — the group of 36 developed nations, that has chosen to object to the adoption of recently agreed Basel Convention trade controls to ensure that plastic wastes that are dirty and mixed and thus […]
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Support Grows to Control Plastic Waste in International Trade Treaty
GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 6, 2018 – The 11th Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention, the world’s only international treaty on waste control, concluded with widespread and growing support for a proposal by Norway to add plastic waste to the list of wastes subject to the trade controls under the convention. The […]
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Watchdog Group’s GPS Trackers Find More Fake Electronics Recyclers in U.S. Sending e-Waste to Asia
SEATTLE, WA, Sept. 14, 2017 – Following their exposé last year entitled “Scam Recycling” employing 205 GPS tracking devices placed inside electronic waste to find out what happens to it, the Basel Action Network (BAN) has released new findings in a short 15 page report. Their most recent data reveals 16 more instances of exports […]