Although many people believe that their plastic waste is managed effectively and properly through recycling, a good amount of exported plastic waste goes to nations that lack proper waste management facilities.
Sometimes, plastic, which is considered recyclable, is burnt openly, thereby emitting dangerous gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere.
Recycling of plastics, exportation of plastic wastes, international recycling of plastics, pollution by plastics, open burning of plastics, threats to public health, air pollution, waste management, and environmental pollution, especially due to global plastic wastes, have been increasingly associated with each other in an emerging environmental crisis.
The hidden reality of exported plastic waste: Where does it goOver the years, developed countries have been disposing of plastic waste in poorer nations to be processed.
It is intended that the waste be processed and eventually reentered into circulation.
