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Many richer nations deal with difficult-to-recycle or contaminated plastic by exporting it to poorer countries.
An amendment to the Basel Convention restricts this practice, forcing bigger countries to deal with their plastic waste production.
The United States did not ratify the amendment, but will no longer be able to export to Basel countries.
When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018 it exposed just how much waste the world s wealthiest countries were dumping on poorer countries. Now, those countries are sending it back and the world’s oceans may be better for it.
Secret Canada-U.S. Plastic Waste Trade Deal Revealed
SEATTLE, Washington, December 18, 2020 (ENS) – Environmental groups are calling a secret agreement on plastic wastes signed between Canada and the United States “illegal, unacceptable and dangerous.” In a letter to Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson earlier this month, Canadian, U.S. and international environmental organizations called for the secret agreement to be made public.
They expressed their concerns that the agreement violates the new Basel Convention amendments on plastic wastes, which becomes international law on January 1, 2021. The Canadian government has claimed that it supports these amendments and promised to ratify them, but it has not yet done so.
December 21, 2020
Share The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal (the Basel Convention or Convention), which entered into force in 1992, is a multilateral agreement governing the transboundary movement of hazardous waste and certain other wastes. The Convention generally requires that private parties seeking to ship certain kinds of wastes receive consent from the governments of the exporting and importing countries as well as any countries of transit. The Convention was amended in 2019 to expand the type of plastic wastes subject to these requirements, effective January 1, 2021. These amendments will substantially change transboundary shipments of plastic waste and the waste and recycling industries overall. Barring a permissible separate agreement, nonparties to the Convention, which includes the United States and a handful of other countries, will not be allowed to ship regulated plastic was