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Sri Lanka raises stink over waste consignments from Britain

Published 07/25/2019, 07:40 PM
Updated 07/25/2019, 07:50 PM
Sri Lanka raises stink over waste consignments from Britain

By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal
COLOMBO, July 25 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has ordered the
return of 213 containers of waste from Britain after finding,
plastic and biological waste including suspected human body
parts in the shipments, government officials said on Thursday.
Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of Asian countries to
reject shipments of waste from Western countries after China
banned such imports, disrupting the global flow of millions of
tonnes of waste each year.
"There is an investigation going on and we've also informed
the importers to re-export immediately to the first port it was
exported from," said Sri Lanka Customs spokesman Sunil Jayaratne
told Reuters.
"The UK has violated the Basel Convention," he said,
referring to a U.N. treaty on the trade of plastic waste.
Over the last two months, the Philippines, Indonesia and
Malaysia have all ordered the return of waste shipments to
Canada, the United States, Japan, France, Australia and other
countries.
About 180 countries reached a deal in May to amend the Basel
Convention to make global trade in plastic waste more
transparent and better regulated, while also ensuring that its
management is safer for human health and the environment.
The United States, the world's top exporter of plastic
waste, has not ratified the 30-year-old pact.

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