No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome. By Hiroko Tabuchi and Zunaira Saieed In the shadow of President Trump’s ...
High-income countries have long sent their waste abroad to be thrown away or recycled — and an independent team of experts says they’re inundating the developing world with much more plastic than ...
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 ...
In front of the United Nations African headquarters in Nairobi, a 30-foot-high artwork featuring a faucet “spewing” a long stream of plastic waste dramatically illustrates the worsening flow of ...
EU produces 35.3kg of plastic packaging waste per person each year: Which country recycles the most?
In 2023, the EU generated 79.7 million tonnes of packaging waste in Europe, equivalent to 177.8kg per inhabitant. The European Union’s best recyclers have been revealed, with several countries ...
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