{"id":42581,"date":"2021-03-14T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=42581"},"modified":"2021-03-14T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T09:30:44","slug":"us-plastic-waste-exports-in-violation-of-new-un-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/chief-editors-choice\/us-plastic-waste-exports-in-violation-of-new-un-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"US plastic waste exports in violation of new UN rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Plastics recycling in most developing countries is crude, incomplete, and highly polluting. Under the new rules, mixed and contaminated plastic wastes, or those containing PVC, that are routinely collected from residents in municipalities, small businesses, and recyclers, and that have in the past been freely traded are meant to now be strictly controlled. But, despite the new rules starting in January 2021, the first glimpse of the 2021 data shows that such exports to non-OECD countries (developing) have not diminished. Some, such as exports to Malaysia, have actually increased.<\/p>\n<p>While the US is not a member (Party) to the Basel Convention, and thus the new rules do not directly apply to US exporters, that also means that the 187 countries that are Parties of Basel are not allowed to import Basel controlled wastes from the US until the US joins the treaty. When the US exporters ignore the global rules, their waste shipments become criminal traffic as soon as the ships get on the high seas, and their trading partners can be prosecuted. Shipping lines also can be liable for carrying contraband.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the inability of US materials recovery facilities (MRFs) to achieve low contamination rates that are now required by the Basel Convention, combined with the fact that many known exports are bales of mixed polymers or include PVC, the exports to Basel Parties are almost certain to be violating the new Basel rules.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recycling-magazine.com\/2021\/03\/11\/us-plastic-waste-exports-in-violation-of-new-un-rules\/\">Recycling Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastics recycling in most developing countries is crude, incomplete, and highly polluting. Under the new rules, mixed and contaminated plastic wastes, or those containing PVC,&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594],"tags":[12077,1475,528],"class_list":["post-42581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","tag-basel-convention","tag-plastic-waste","tag-us","wpcat-5594-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/USAflag-1291945_1920.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42694,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42581\/revisions\/42694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}