Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: EU Promotes Greater Global Responsibility on Plastic Waste -- But Not for Internal Market!
July 08, 2020
July 08, 2020
NEW YORK, July 8 -- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives issued the following news release:
In April of last year, the European Union joined Norway in co-sponsoring amendments to the world's only waste treaty to establish new trade controls on the dirtiest and most unrecyclable plastic wastes. These amendments were passed in response to countless human rights abuses, and environmental pollution caused by unregulated plastic waste dumping. Such problematic plastic wastes now . . .
In April of last year, the European Union joined Norway in co-sponsoring amendments to the world's only waste treaty to establish new trade controls on the dirtiest and most unrecyclable plastic wastes. These amendments were passed in response to countless human rights abuses, and environmental pollution caused by unregulated plastic waste dumping. Such problematic plastic wastes now . . .