Germany was the world’s largest plastic waste exporter in 2025, sending more than 810,000 tons abroad, mainly to Turkey, Malaysia, and Indonesia. These recipient countries have faced illegal dumping, ...

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 ...

Global Plastic Overshoot Day has passed, marking the point at which humanity’s plastic waste exceeds the world’s capacity to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker collects used plastic bottles at a waste facility ahead of World Environment Day in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 4. Photo ...

Recycling cannot solve the globe’s plastic crisis, campaigners have warned, as today marks the moment this year ‘the world ...

Ottawa, Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Towards Packaging, a sister firm of Precedence Research, global plastics production and trade have expanded dramatically over the past decades, ...

When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, countries like the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan didn't stop exporting plastic waste—they diverted their shipments to countries ...

Germany was the world's largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tonnes overseas, according to a new study. It was followed by the UK, which exported 675,000 tonnes abroad, said the ...

Dublin, July 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Malaysia Plastic Industry Research Report 2024-2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The plastics industry in Malaysia serves ...

Bangladesh's new plastic waste policy must integrate economic incentives and informal recyclers to achieve a circular economy ...

June 25 (UPI) --As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, but where it begins -- with the United States emerging as ...