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bringing the news and current fast? ah, era as the war population grows, so does the waste we produce, but some criminal gangs are taking advantage by illegally dumping crashing countries like romania. so what can government do to stop this? and then hans, proper recycling this is inside stored. ah, ah, hello, welcome to the program on, hasn't seeka illegal waste has become a huge issue for many countries around the world. this is especially the case in eastern european nations like romania and bulgaria. trash that should have been recycled or treated properly is often dumped or burned in open fields. creating

a health and environmental risk. criminal gangs have long taken advantage of this problem and facilitated the dumping of even more illegal waste. much of that trash comes from rich western european nations. some companies and governments believe the waste is being handled properly, but often it's discarded without proper treatment. and all that waste is killing natural habitats by polluting the water and air around them, while governments are forced to spend millions of dollars every year to clean it up . so what should countries do to implement proper waste management and prevent illegal dumping? we'll put that to our guests shortly, but 1st a report from andrew simmons on how romania is dealing with this issue. this site was registered as a recycling center. yet it became a mountain of waste mixed with building rubble ignored by local authorities for more than 10 years until now. take

a lot of plastic. domestic waste may be induced to other ways in that part. the new head of romania is national environment agency, octavian. but chombo knew nothing about it until sewage pipes beneath the tip collapsed a few weeks ago, flooding a suburb of bucharest, aside from the acrid stench and the colossal scale of its tip and others like it. romania now has an even bigger problem with illegal waste. go east to the black sea port of cause time to and rubbish is a criminal commodity with millions of dollars. and a determined prosecutor here is taking on the car, sells the model for problem of illegal waste trafficking is compatible with the drug trafficking to you don't. it's a faces and overwhelming challenge, but he did smash one or daisha plan to import a shipment of toxic waste from italy,

so called business men were involved and they attempted to bribe local officials, whales from other european consignments, like these sho, recycling centers as destinations. but instead they go to basic consideration sites all landfill dumped pollution on a big scale. this is part of one consignment from the u. k. host of cop 26. the you and global warming summit due in november, need sa says the u. k is incorporating enough on getting prosecutions. i was to have a more collaboration of, of, from the barbara for really short or it is we are fighting against any crimes. and you know, any crimes regarding not romania and not going to beat them. in my opinion. it's a huge problem for all the planet, october on, but sean, who says his investigation team is poorly paid, and it faces intimidation from criminals, exposing your family, your life. it's a problem to be put on the mound,

but child who stay besides symbolizes a different era of ways. crime now to wolf by matthew cartels, bribery, corruption, here and overseas. and there's pollution never seen before. coupled with inaction and apparent indifference in other european states. andrew simmons, al jazeera, bucharest, ah, well, let's bring and i guess now in sydney we have edward cozier environmental entrepreneur and managing director of next tech, recycling consultancy in brussels. we have phone fin, stain forth, policy analyst at the institute for european environmental policy. and joining us in beirut, the ad founder of cedar environmental and environmental, industrial and engineering, organization, a warm welcome to all of you for staying for the fact to start with,

you just give us a sense of the scale this problem and how bad is it gone in the last few years, young in the, in recent years, this problem has gotten much worse. partially because of the increasing volume of waste that's available. and so, because there's been changes in, in many countries have decided not to accept waste shipments like they used to. and that is really highlighted the degree to which many countries have been relying on simply shipping their waste abroad. i think many people are not aware of the degree to which that is happening. many people think maybe that there is a very good recycling policies in place, but in fact, a lot of waste has still been simply shipped abroad. and eh, because you know what's, what's the environmental and health impact of all of all this? well, when materials are shipped abroad,

they don't always go to countries that have adequate waste management facilities. the materials that are shipped typically are mixtures of both recyclable and non refundable materials. and very often that isn't thoroughly checked. now, when that happens in the country where it's being finally sorted, the, the good and valuable materials will be extracted and the non valuable ones will then be discarded or buried or burnt. and this of course has negative impact. if they're not properly treated, then they could be released into the environment and damage the surroundings for, for animals and see life. and what life we know when everyone's very familiar about the volume of plastics that eventually released by rivers and the oceans. in many parts of the world. so those scenarios happen where we don't have adequate waste management provisions to make sure these materials are properly looked after. after sorting. the, the check that i know in the news

a while back lebanon was having a lot of problems with, with, with their whole garbage collection. just give us a sense of your perspective on this and why this is such a huge problem. well, you know, like the guy said, this is still unchecked, unregulated. a lot of advanced countries have shipped their ways to 3rd world countries where there is not the proper infrastructure. we are at least another non we are lucky is that we did not. we have very stringent regulations on accepting incoming waste from other countries, but we have, we have a lot of problems dealing with our own as well. like you said, there is also, there is also an economic aspect to plastics. recycling. no one wants to foot the bill of recycling this material. this material can, can be used and reuse and re purpose. but someone needs to subsidize

the cost of that. so it's not an issue of a let's try to use less plastic. it's about where it is in, in, in the chain and make making and reusing it. that is what you're saying. what i mean, you know, i'm not sure if the other gets agree with me as well as talking plastic has done, has made a huge leap. so technically speaking, weekend practically recycle all kinds of plastics. technically, i'm saying now it's all about the economics would. would the government want to subsidize such a, such an endeavor or not? eventually they will need to the thought from the same for we we just, we saw in the, in the report from romania about how they said there are, there are criminal gangs that are controlling a lot of this,

the waste collection and the processing of it which is part of what makes it so challenging, but that's, that's a phenomenon. and you see all over the world, don't you what, why, what is it about about the rubbish collection business that attracts seems to attract criminal elements. is it also because it's kind of a risk recession proof business? there's always money to be made. people always need that their rubbish collected. well, exactly. it's a resilient business for, for criminal elements to to make money. it's always needed there. it's a good money laundering vehicle as well in some cases, and it's an area that is very often under enforced. it's very hard to keep track of, of all of the rubbish that's being shipped around the world. and that's available. as we all know, there is a constant stream available and we see that, for example, in the, you, the, the enforcement of,

of the rules of doing this are quite inconsistent. and that's one of the reasons, for example, that romania is a, is an area that has seen a lot of activity in this area that the, the enforcement there is particularly bad, but it's not good across the you and the european commission has recently proposed that the the enforcement mechanisms and the coordination within the you needs to be improved. you have a full little bit more about that than edward cozier. what do you think needs to be done to, to stop this? well, there's a big opportunity to actually stop the export of, of packaging materials like plastics for example, while the country, primarily what happens in countries that are well developed with the collection systems is that they can collect them efficiently. they do some preliminary sorting . and then the next decision is, did these materials was recycled inside the country, or are they exported?

the statistics for collection, i usually counted as the, the statistic for recycling. but what happens in the next step is really quite important. now when the materials are released to another country, they're not always properly recycled, as, as we've just mentioned and just heard. but all of these materials actually have a value if they're recycled in the country where they're generated, typically that will create more employment. yes, it's expensive to recycle these materials because you have to have machine injury and labor, an energy to do the wireless. however, at the very end your, you recreate the materials, those materials will replace virgin plastics. and so they actually have a big benefit to the environment because it lessens what we need at the other end in terms of oil conversion into, into new material. so there's a big carbon footprint benefit from recycling, especially in the countries that where the generated and the other big benefit of

this is if companies generate plastics that are difficult to recycle, it becomes immediately obvious in that market. and that means the recycle is, can feed back to the, the retailers and the manufacturers about the lack of refract, lability. and so all of a sudden you've got a mechanism to repair the design process so that the packaging that is made is recyclable. and then go through multiple loops many times with benefits to everyone . so the prime benefit there is to act or mechanism is to restrict the outlet all of recycled materials are the countries that this is already happening. but obviously the mac can ism has weaknesses in it. and that's why we end up with examples like the ones you've portfolio. but there are some simple ways of doing it . and, and i think everyone's got this in a targets. the matter is, i think the big question is, how do you, how do you make the system function more efficiently that the deb share?

what, what point in the chain can, can something we don't to stop this? i mean, you, you mentioned how lebanon has very tough laws, against collecting waste from, from outside the country. so that's, that's one area where you can toughen things up. but where else is the best place to tackle the problem? you know, i think, you know, we should, you know, the un, we should, or country should agree that it's basic decency that you do not ship your waste on to other people's countries. this is as basic as that. once, once you forbid the export of any plastic waste material then and then you copy that with some local local programs, project subsidies to encourage local recycling. like the gentleman said, you know,

this creates jobs, economic activity. you have, you know, plastic is fantastic. medea this is, this is a image either that last 4 or 500 years. you can rework it and work it and you work it again and again. and again. you can make a furniture with it. we're making vertical farms structured with it. it's a very versatile medina to work with shipping it to other people's countries where they left the infrastructure. it should be, it should be a crime softens thing for what you mean. you talked earlier about how the, there's a lack of mechanisms to, to really tackle the problem in certain countries like romania, for example. and we heard in the report how law enforcement agencies are really up against it. dealing with these, these organized crime groups. so what, what can not just law enforcement agencies, but governments in these countries,

how do you strengthen their ability to deal with this problem? well, i think that there are 2 sides. i mean there's the, the enforcement of the law to prevent illegal waste dumping and shipments. but then we need to look as we've just heard at the other side of the equation. i think that's where really the focus needs to be. and where we've only just really started to explore the options in terms of making a circular economy that moves away from the linear model of dumping our waste as cheaply as possible and to reusing the materials as we've just heard. it's technically quite feasible to, to, to reuse and, and to reuse the materials from plastic and all kinds of other products. in some cases, it can be more expensive immediately, but in the longer term it,

this isn't the case and, and should make for a more holistic economy where people are employed locally. for example, repairing items. one of the mechanisms that the us looking at is a right to repair, where people will have the right to have their product, such as mobile phones and, and laptops which are often discarded very quickly repaired. there will be also looking at, for example, requirements to include a higher level of recycled content in products which often are very low at the moment and funding research and development to improve recycling techniques. so those are some very concrete mechanisms that can be used and, and are being rolled out now, certainly in the, you and in some other countries around the world. a because, you know, we mentioned earlier in this, i think about how,

how rich countries seem to have the better equipped to deal with this because they have the, the infrastructure, the technical infrastructure and you know, better better law enforcement. and so on is the onus on them more to, to, to, to look at this of the, at the global level to, to, to, to try and, you know, improve the situation for the poor countries as well because they're part of the problem. okay. you'd have to say yes, because 1st of all, the countries that are more economically wealthy are the ones who have high consumption rates, all packaging materials and plastic. so typically they're going to generate more material. sadly, the world and recycled. 15 percent of all the plastics. it makes but 40 percent is going into packaging, short term applications. 60 percent goes into long term product. so at least at 40 percent that's fast moving. should be recycled and probably we're only at the rate

of recycling of 30 percent. what happens is the other 70 percent? well, it ends up either going into landfill, a waste to energy. now, could we do more in this area? i think those countries that are high generators of plastics have a greater responsibility. now you could ask the question, does romania have place to place? well, of course it has. it's got probably 80000000 people. it's generating waste. but it's bringing him in material from europe or wealthier countries because it's, it's part of europe. it can, it can buy these materials because there's a mechanism that allows this to happen. so they buying materials from your europe, or from germany on australia or france, or it's fine, and they're coming in for processing. now ideally those materials should be process where they were not one of the mechanisms to do that is what's happening in united kingdom, where they're applying a $200.00 pound per ton tax on packaging that does not have 30 percent the cycle

content. now what we've seen with the announcement of this tax, which is coming into play in april 2022 is that many companies are now investing in recycling. brand owners are specifying this material they're looking to put it into their packaging. so all of a sudden there's a big local demand for recycled material. so if every country put on a text on mit on packaging that did not have 30 percent recycled content. well then all of a sudden local recycling would start to be boosted. i think we're starting to transform economies in many countries with mechanisms like this. so companies will go a long way to avoid the taxation. and so i'll actually invest and create a new business with materials that i locally available. so indeed, the wildly wealthy economies can lead that can also actually sprayed the same sort

of pattern. so all countries so that all of them do something about the waste and as a, as a plan, as we know we're living at the right of the spray plants. so the sucker economy is way to hold that in to use fewer resources, create fuel carbon emissions, and actually have a more sustainable planet for the future. and i think this is really way the waste industry can play a very major role. but of course, the government and the retail tech has to play their part so that we don't live this linear model of making and discarding. so, recycling is really a part of the future. it's a part of the way of paving a better, a better path to more sustainable planet. so, some very good opportunities ahead if we actually implement this in the correct way . we're speaking of opportunities is the object how. how important is to try and raise public awareness about this problem because the,

it does seem to be something that you don't hear about that often. i mean, i was, for example, surprised to read in the situation of it with, with plastic that you mentioned earlier that, you know, using less plastic and banding plastic is not really the long term solution. it's about where, where, you know, where the plastic is in the chain, so to speak. so how, how important is it to, to, to trying to educate people about that. but it's very, it's very important the banding, the plastic is a bit counter intuitive at this point. you know, this is a, a very well established material. it's going to cost a lot of research and development and processing to come up with an alternative. it would be much cheaper, like we said, if you impose attacks on a non properly sorted waste or non properly recycled waste. and then also you take that tax and you create incentive programs with the money to,

to entice new businesses to go. and you say, you know, we're going to pay a subsidy of $50.00 pounds. that's a per done of your low density for the abilene pallets. so this is, this is the outcome of recycling plastic bags. once you, once you put that into the equation, once you have fixation and incentives, things would start rolling. and to do that, you will need to have the public pressure on board. it's the public. we're going to post decision makers. we're going to pressure decision makers that they need to clean up that act. we should not forget that most decision makers in most countries are also under pressure from lobbies, from from business lobby from industrial lobbies from the plastic lobby. not to tax the plastic with us, but this has, this has brought us here. this has brought us to this state of affairs and this

needs to be changed. and the only way to change it is to have as much of the population on board as possible. to source and stay for what do you think is can be done to, to, to raise more public awareness about this? well, i think that in general, public awareness is increasing in general of the moment because of the awareness of climate change, for example, which of course is impacted as well by, by waste a lot of climate emissions that are produced in the production of products. and in the extraction of the resources we need for them. so if we can reduce the amount of, of material that we use and they increase their circularity of our products, the better. and for that reason, i think that this is an issue that we're very much in public. i also we see marine pollution for example, is something that resonates with the public. so i think in

a way that the public awareness is, is it is there now, but what is needed now is for governments to really take action and to put in part in place the mandatory frameworks on under tools that we've been discussing today to push forward these policies and on that we're going to have to leave it. thank you to all 3 of you add good cause here, thornton stained force and he had a thanks so much for being with us. thank you and thank you to for watching. remember, you can see this program again anytime by visiting our website. i just the dot com . and so for the discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash a j inside stored. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is as a inside story for me as a speaker and the entire team here in doha, i from the me a

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