The Waste newsroom tracks the dumping of plastics from the rich world onto the developing world. It gives journalists from different countries the capacity to uncover where plastic waste ends up, who profits and who is responsible. We combine complex supply chain data with information scraped from public sources, social media, ship tracking databases, satellite imagery and sources on the ground.
NEWSROOM WASTE
10.10.2023
The West’s Next Plastics Dump
As Southeast Asia bans plastic waste imports, rich countries are offloading their plastic waste in even more vulnerable places – where citizens are too afraid to say no.
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22.03.2022
Europe’s Black Seas
Disastrous discharge of oily wastewater continues despite monitoring
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16.10.2020
Recycling Lies
Plastics labyrinth allows traders to illegally ship Europe’s waste
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