Dealing with plastic waste

The Basel Convention is a treaty that regulates movement of hazardous materials from one country to another. Governments of 187 countries have signed this treaty, but we are not one of the 187. Now they have added plastic to the materials to be better managed. So, contaminated and most mixes of plastic wastes will require prior consent from receiving countries before they are traded. We will have difficulties in trying to trade plastic waste to virtually any country in the world.

An estimated 100 million tons of plastic is now found in the world's oceans, up to 90% of which comes from land-based sources, studies have found.