exports are the largest for a single country. and other European nations, as trash exporters searched for new buyers.ДЄlthough the European Union is the worldвЂ™s largest exporter of plastic waste, U.S. In the West, plastic trash piled up on the docks in San Francisco and in the U.K. Several countries took action to stop shipments at their ports. By 2030 ChinaвЂ™s new policy will have displaced more than 120 million tons of mixed or contaminated plastic, according to a study published last year.ДЄs a result of that change, other Southeast Asian nations, including Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia, were quickly overwhelmed with shipments of waste that they did not have the capacity to handle. Plastic waste shipments became an issue last year after China, the worldвЂ™s biggest importer of plastic scrap, stopped buying non-industrial plastic scrap, upending a $200 billion global recycling industry. Requiring that kind of special attention is regarded as a crucial step in helping the world gain control of a plastic pollution crisis that has already seen 100 million tons of plastic waste leak into the worldвЂ™s oceans, according to United Nations figures.Дavid Azoulay of the Center for International Environmental Law, a research and advocacy group, said in an interview that the action вЂњshows what ambitious international leadership looks like.вЂќ

Under the amended treaty, exporters must first obtain consent from the governments of receiving nations before shipping the most contaminated, mixed, or unrecyclable plastic waste.

On May 10, more than 180 nations agreed in Geneva to add mixed plastic scrap to the Basel Convention, the treaty that controls the international movement of hazardous waste. It just got more difficult for rich countries to ship their plastic waste to poor countries.

The inoted states send plastic overseas