Treated Like Trash. South East Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish to the West.

[eagle1462010]

The Western Nations have been using South East Asia as the dumping ground for waste for Decades. China stopped accepting plastic in 2017. South East Asia has had enough. And now we have a problem of where to send our trash.

Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west

Region begins pushback against deluge of plastic and electronic waste from UK, US and Australia

For the past year, the waste of the world has been gathering on the shores of south-east Asia. Crates of unwanted rubbish from the west have accumulated in the ports of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam while vast toxic wastelands of plastics imported from Europe and the US have built up across Malaysia.

But not for much longer it seems. A pushback is beginning, as nations across south-east Asia vow to send the garbage back to where it came from.

Last week the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Canada if the government did not agree to take back 69 containers containing 1,500 tonnes of waste that had been exported to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014.

Canada had refused to even acknowledge the issue for years but as the dispute escalated, Duterte declared that if the government did not act quickly, the Philippines would tow the rubbish to Canadian waters and dump it there.

“The Philippines as an independent sovereign nation must not be treated as trash by a foreign nation,” said presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo.

The rhetoric was symptomatic of a wider regional pushback that began last year when Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam all introduced legislation to prevent contaminated foreign waste coming into their ports.

On 23 April a Malaysian government investigation revealed that waste from the UK, Australia, United States and Germany was pouring into the country illegally, falsely declared as other imports.

Enough was enough, said Yeo Bee Yin, the environment minister. “Malaysia will not be the dumping ground of the world. We will send back [the waste] to the original countries.”

How did Canada force the Philippines to take the plastic in 2013-2014 against its will?

They just mislabeled the containers..........and said........SEE NO PLASTIC OR HAZARDOUS material in the Rubbish............Under inspections they LIED........

 

[Mac-7]

The Western Nations have been using South East Asia as the dumping ground for waste for Decades. China stopped accepting plastic in 2017. South East Asia has had enough. And now we have a problem of where to send our trash.

Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west

Region begins pushback against deluge of plastic and electronic waste from UK, US and Australia

For the past year, the waste of the world has been gathering on the shores of south-east Asia. Crates of unwanted rubbish from the west have accumulated in the ports of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam while vast toxic wastelands of plastics imported from Europe and the US have built up across Malaysia.

But not for much longer it seems. A pushback is beginning, as nations across south-east Asia vow to send the garbage back to where it came from.

Last week the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Canada if the government did not agree to take back 69 containers containing 1,500 tonnes of waste that had been exported to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014.

Canada had refused to even acknowledge the issue for years but as the dispute escalated, Duterte declared that if the government did not act quickly, the Philippines would tow the rubbish to Canadian waters and dump it there.

“The Philippines as an independent sovereign nation must not be treated as trash by a foreign nation,” said presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo.

The rhetoric was symptomatic of a wider regional pushback that began last year when Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam all introduced legislation to prevent contaminated foreign waste coming into their ports.

On 23 April a Malaysian government investigation revealed that waste from the UK, Australia, United States and Germany was pouring into the country illegally, falsely declared as other imports.

Enough was enough, said Yeo Bee Yin, the environment minister. “Malaysia will not be the dumping ground of the world. We will send back [the waste] to the original countries.”

How did Canada force the Philippines to take the plastic in 2013-2014 against its will?

They just mislabeled the containers..........and said........SEE NO PLASTIC OR HAZARDOUS material in the Rubbish............Under inspections they LIED........

A court has ruled that Canada must accept the containers and Canada has agreed to do so

I suppose Durate is just pissed that they are not moving fast enough

 

[Mac-7]

I wonder how much waste china dumps into the worlds oceans every ear?

Probably more than the English speaking countries combined

 

[NightFox]

I'm not against Recycling using prison labor to help pay for the prisons and solve a problem.

It won't help solve the problem because the problem isn't a shortage of labor in plastics recycling.

The problem is that the vast majority of plastics CANNOT BE RECYCLED, they're SINGLE USE the only thing that can be done with them as of right now is to dump them someplace or burn them, neither of which is a good option.

Solving the root cause of the problem requires rethinking the entire system of plastics manufacturing and consumption.

Find a way to limit emissions with Scrubber and Ionization filter tech to incinerate it then...........

Probably won't work, since as we've already seen they'll just be shipped overseas where the regulatory regime will allow them to be incinerated without having to incur the additional costs of technology required to reduce/eliminate emissions into the atmosphere. People and organizations will ALWAYS choose to externalize costs when the opportunity is available to them and the opportunity will be available as long as there are countries (or black markets) that are willing to take in plastic waste for a price that is lower than disposing of the waste in an environmentally friendly fashion.

or go back to paper.......We used paper back in the day........wasn't a problem........

Paper isn't a suitable substitute material for most of the applications that are now covered by plastics, then there is also the fact that paper production isn't exactly environmentally friendly either in fact it's downright filthy.

What we really need is the next revolution in materials (biodegradable nanotube materials perhaps?) that creates suitable environmentally friendly substitutes for non-recyclable plastics to come as quickly as possible.

 

[Likkmee]

these countries apparently have no EPA counterpart....~S~

Scientists evaluate cancer risk of US drinking water

 

[Crepitus]

Pretty sure we can find a hole to throw it in.

Now there's a dumb idea.

 

[eagle1462010]

these countries apparently have no EPA counterpart....~S~

Scientists evaluate cancer risk of US drinking water

Effects of our industrial age.......where we didn't have better standards.......causing problems during our time until we decided to stop it.

It is still a problem with Sewage in major cities across this nation with heavy rains causing sewage to go into the rivers from our storm drainage system.

Another example is Flint Mich..........using polluted water and improperly treating it..........then it exploded aging lead piping..........which is a VERY EXPENSIVE issue that we need to look at.

 

[Dragonlady]

How is this all being done illegally escapes me Eagle....~S~

It's not being done illegally. In the past, these countries were more than willing to take in the garbage because they could make money doing it. The resultant contamination and pollution are the unintended by-product of those decisions.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

.What to do with all our trash

are we talking industrial trash?

~S~

Send it to California. Might as well expedite their implosion. Nothing but rats and shit there now anyhow

Would they even notice?

 

[Persistence Of Memory]

.What to do with all our trash

are we talking industrial trash?

~S~

Send it to California. Might as well expedite their implosion. Nothing but rats and shit there now anyhow

We could bury it on top of the homeless. Make the areas look better.

J/K