How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

Mongabay
Nov 18, 2024, 12:31 pm233 pts
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a typical approach to waste and is one of the main reasons why the waste trade persists. The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other developing countries in the 1980s, and since 1988, more than a quarter of a billion tons of plastic waste have…

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