Indonesia’s air quality got worse after China banned plastic waste imports, research shows (opens in new tab)

When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, countries like the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, and Japan didn’t stop exporting plastic waste—they diverted their shipments to countries in Southeast Asia. New research led by Ellen Considine, fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder, shows […] The post appeared first on <a href="