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ECA invite to survey response on issue of plastic waste, as EU must boost recycling – deadline 27 November 2020

November 15, 2020

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is inviting stakeholders to the survey on review 04/2020: “EU action to tackle the issue of plastic waste“.  The survey opens by clicking here. Deadline is 27 November 2020. The ECA strives to produce audit reports of high impact and which are useful to its stakeholders. This survey gives the… [Read more]

Alarming increase in illegal plastic pollution trade globally, according to Interpol

September 1, 2020

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

October 21, 2019

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”

September 25, 2019

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

September 6, 2019

  Plastic Waste Focus of Third Waste Crime Alert

Basel amendment proposed by Norway to cover scrap plastic

August 3, 2018

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]

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