Germany was the world’s largest plastic waste exporter in 2025, sending more than 810,000 tons abroad, mainly to Turkey, Malaysia, and Indonesia. These recipient countries have faced illegal dumping, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker collects used plastic bottles at a waste facility ahead of World Environment Day in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 4. Photo ...

Ottawa, Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to Towards Packaging, a sister firm of Precedence Research, global plastics production and trade have expanded dramatically over the past decades, ...

A Guardian investigation finds irrigation canals polluted with microplastics in Turkey, a major destination for UK waste ‘Nobody cares’: Turkish farmers bear the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem ...

In November 2026, the European Union will prohibit exports of potentially recyclable plastic to non-OECD countries. The EU ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Dense mats of synthetic waste have washed ashore on Balalan Beach in Northern Cyprus, painting a graphic picture of the damaging regional environmental fallout from Turkey’s ...

June 25 (UPI) --As global concern over plastic pollution intensifies, a growing share of the problem is tied not to where waste is discarded, but where it begins -- with the United States emerging as ...

Plastic bottles and containers are seen in a domestic recycling bin in Manchester.Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters High levels of microplastics and other plastic contamination have been discovered in a ...