Slay the EU plastic waste dragon! – Rethink Plastic Alliance calling for waste trade ban – TheMayor.EU

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The dragon is here to remind us how much the careless production of plastic waste affects the world , Source: Photos courtesy of BFPP
The European Union is consistently among the highest exporters of plastic waste across the world, shifting the burden of pollution to far away countries.
The Rethink Plastic Alliance are calling for a ban on all EU plastic waste trade exports outside the border of the single market. On 29 September, they will back the plastic spewing dragon right next to the Berlaymont building (the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels) to petition the EU executive to enable the ban.
The initiative is called ‘Slaying the EU plastic waste dragon’ and it involves the participation of the Break Free from Plastic movement, the Rethink Plastic Alliance, Zero Waste Europe, the Environmental Investigation Agency, European Environmental Bureau and European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, who will give a speech in the afternoon.
According to the Rethink Plastic Alliance, the European Union cannot achieve any of the waste management goals if it does not stop exporting plastic. “Irresponsibly managed waste has no place in a circular economy.”
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Source: Photos courtesy of BFPP
They present this comparison, to strengthen their argument – in 1950, the world produced 1.5 million tons of plastic. In 2019, the European Union shipped more than 1.7 million tons to countries outside the single market, mainly to Turkey, Malaysia and China.
This is indicative of the systemic inability of the EU to manage all the plastic waste and a tendency to shift the problem to different parts of the globe. At the same time, it hides the immediate effects of irresponsible plastic consumption and causes severe ecological damage to receiving countries.
Rethink plastic cite a soon-to-be-published EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) report, claiming that for the past 30 years more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic has been legally traded across the world. According to the report, the European Union is consistently among the highest exporters of plastic.
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