Germany was the largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, closely followed by the UK, according to new research published in ...

"We have known about this market failure for years." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold ...

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 ...

ASEAN has become an attractive destination for petrochemical expansion and plastic waste exports, given its proximity to China and regional appetite for foreign investment. This will come at high ...

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.

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 ...

Germany was the world’s largest plastic waste exporter in 2025, sending more than 810,000 tons abroad, mainly to Turkey, ...