Report Emergency criminal trends in the plastic waste market since January 2020
On a global scale, policies encouraging the recycling of plastic waste have created a large and continuously expanding business sector, with significant volumes of plastic waste traded transnationally for recycling. Between 1992 and 2018, China imported a cumulative 45% of the world’s plastic waste, making the global plastic waste market heavily dependent on the access to the Chinese recycling sector.
However, in January 2018 China implemented new imports [...]






























