[New post] Plastic Waste Losing Another Place To Land
Organikos posted: " When conscientious citizens learn more about where all the plastic goes when they do their part to recycle, it can be demoralizing. Recycling is important but the real solution is reducing the waste in the first place: Indonesia Cracks Down on the Sc" Organikos
When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, exporters in wealthy countries targeted other developing nations. Faced with an unending stream of unrecyclable waste, Indonesia has tightened its regulations and has begun to make progress in stemming the plastics flow.
Workers prepare to burn plastic waste at an import dump in Mojokerto, Indonesia. ULET IFANSASTI / GETTY IMAGES
In 2019, at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates from 187 countries approved the first-ever global rules on cross-border shipments of plastic waste. No longer could countries export contaminated, mixed, or unrecyclable plastics without the recipient country's informed consent. It was a landmark step aimed at reducing the flood of wealthy nations' scrap that had been deluging poorer regions, particularly Southeast Asia, since China closed its doors to such imports the previous year.
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