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Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic

The noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes. The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter.
Tuesday, 28 May 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/china-food-delivery-trash.html

BEIJING — In all likelihood, the enduring physical legacy of China’s internet boom will not be the glass-and-steel office complexes or the fancy apartments for tech elites.

It will be the plastic.

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New CIEL Report: Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

Friday, 24 May 2019

Amidst growing concern about the impacts of plastic on the oceans, ecosystems, and human health, there’s another largely hidden dimension of the plastic crisis: plastic’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. This report examines each of these stages of the plastic lifecycle to identify the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, sources of uncounted emissions, and uncertainties that likely lead to underestimation of plastic’s climate impacts.

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EcoWaste Coalition Slams Botched Mixed Plastic Waste Shipment from Hong Kong

Quezon City, Phiippines
Friday, 24 May 2019

The waste and pollution watch group EcoWaste Coalition today denounced the latest attempt to dump into the Philippines mixed plastic waste this time from Hong Kong, China.


The incident reinforces the call made by the group urging the government to formalize as soon as possible President Rodrigo Duterte’s marching orders issued last May 6 banning waste shipments from other countries.

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The World Just Took a Major Step To Curb Plastic Pollution, But the U.S. Refused to Join Effort

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Democracy Now: TV, radio and internet news reporting
Interview with Pamela Miller, IPEN co-chair and executive director of ACAT

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UN Decides to Control Global Plastic Waste Dumping

Major Plastic Waste Producers Must Get Consent Before Exporting their Toxic Trash to Global South
Tuesday, 14 May 2019

https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2019/05/10/un-to-control-global-plastic-waste-dumping/

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Países logran acuerdo en la ONU para reglamentar la exportación de residuos plásticos

Muchas naciones, en vías de desarrollo, tendrán por primera vez información sobre los desechos de este material que entran en su territorio y podrán rechazarlos
Tuesday, 14 May 2019
Cerca de 180 países llegaron el viernes a un acuerdo para reglamentar la exportación de los residuos plásticos, que afecta e
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New Global Rules Curb Unrestricted Plastic Waste Exports

UN meeting gives countries the right to refuse unrecyclable, polluting plastics
Friday, 10 May 2019

(Geneva, Switzerland): Governments at the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the Basel Convention acted to restrict rampant plastic waste exports by requiring countries to obtain prior informed consent before exporting contaminated or mixed plastic waste. A deluge of plastic waste exports from developed countries has polluted developing countries in Southeast Asia after China closed the door to waste imports in 2018.

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UN Decides to Control Global Plastic Waste Dumping

Major Plastic Waste Producers Must Get Consent Before Exporting their Toxic Trash to Global South
Friday, 10 May 2019

Geneva, Switzerland — Today, 187 countries took a major step forward in curbing the plastic waste crisis by adding plastic to the Basel Convention, a treaty that controls the movement of hazardous waste from one country to another. The amendments require exporters to obtain the consent of receiving countries before shipping most contaminated, mixed, or unrecyclable plastic waste, providing an important tool for countries in the Global South to stop the dumping of unwanted plastic waste into their country.

After China banned imports of most plastic waste in 2018, developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, have received a huge influx of contaminated and mixed plastic wastes that are difficult or even impossible to recycle. Norway's proposed amendments to the Basel Convention provides countries the right to refuse unwanted or unmanageable plastic waste.

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Norwegian Proposal to Amend the Annexes to the Basel Convention

Friday, 3 May 2019 - 3:41am
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