Germany exported 814,000 metric tons of plastic waste in 2025, the world’s largest total, and sent nearly one-fifth of it to ...

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 ...

Germany was the world's largest exporter of plastic waste in 2025, sending 810,000 tonnes overseas, according to a new study. It was followed by the UK, which exported 675,000 tonnes abroad, said the ...

Thailand has become the latest country to take on the global plastic waste crisis by banning imports of plastic waste. For years, the country had served as a key destination for plastic waste from ...

Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That’s how much plastic waste the world is predicted to be generating every year by 2050 if nothing ...

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.