Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yellow bags of plastic waste and packaging waste hang on a fence in front of an apartment building. German plastic waste exports ...

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 ...

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R Technology UK Ltd and director Yulin Wang fined over £142,000 for illegally exporting contaminated plastic waste from Preston to Malaysia ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — The European Union made a major breakthrough Friday in efforts to stop sending its plastic trash to poor countries. Under a tentative agreement, the 27 EU countries will no longer ...

Biffa Waste, an integrated waste management company based in the U.K., has called for phasing out problem plastics and making packaging as recyclable as possible with a focus on closed loop recycling.

As Cyprus strengthens its position as a regional hub for innovation and sustainability, companies working on real industrial solutions are becoming increasingly important to the island’s future. Among ...

With a global plastics treaty still out of reach, experts say the region’s piecemeal bans on waste imports move the target ...

The UK Government is consulting on further reforms to the ways that businesses can prove that their packaging waste has been ...