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, ...

European Union plastic waste exports to Turkey reached an all-time annual high of 503,000 tonnes in 2025, expanding by 19% year on year. The scale of the growing problem is brought home by an ...

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 ...

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 ...