A new INTERPOL strategic report on global plastic waste management has found an alarming increase in illegal plastic pollution trade across the world since 2018. The report, entitled INTERPOL’s strategical analysis on emerging criminal trends in the global plastic waste market since January 2018, indicates that there has been a considerable increase over the past two… [Read more]
IMPEL Waste & TFS Conference ‘All About Plastic Waste’ Bucharest, October 2019 – presentations available
UPDATE: presentations are available here. During two days, on 16 and 17 of October, more than 100 practitioners from different countries and different organisations and institutions met in Bucharest at the invitation of the Romania National Environmental Guard for the 2019 Waste & TFS Conference. On the 1st day of the conference there were updates… [Read more]
Waste and TFS Conference 16 – 17 October 2019 in Romania is “All about plastic waste”
International cooperation and alignment are very important when it comes to the enforcement of the European Waste Shipment Regulation (WSR). Previous and current Waste and Transfrontier Shipments (TFS) projects showed that it is essential to work together as competent authorities. The upcoming Waste and TFS Conference on 16 and 17 October 2019 in Bucharest, Romania,… [Read more]
New WasteForce alert focuses on (illegal) trade in plastic waste
Plastic Waste Focus of Third Waste Crime Alert
Basel amendment proposed by Norway to cover scrap plastic
The government of Norway on June 2 submitted a proposal to create a new waste category for plastics under the Basel Convention. Norway applied to classify scrap plastics under Annex II, Y48, which covers “wastes requiring special consideration.” The annex currently includes two categories: waste collected from households and residue from waste incineration. “By explicitly… [Read more]