IRRESPONSIBLY MANAGED PLASTIC WASTE TRADE HAS NO PLACE IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

THE PLASTIC WASTE TRADE MANIFESTO

Plastic waste trade creates immeasurable harm to society, health and the environment that is felt disproportionately across the world, and has been happening for decades. While those benefiting from plastic waste trade argue that it is necessary in a globalised circular economy, we believe that plastic waste trade disregards the proximity principle and evades responsibility for ensuring correct waste management and is therefore unfit for a true and safe circular economy.

We cannot aim to achieve a truly safe circular economy with ambitious reductions in resource use, while we continue to offload the burden of our plastic waste elsewhere. This manifesto is a call to European Union institutions to legislate, through the Waste Shipment Regulation, an end to plastic waste exports from the Union and intra-EU management of European plastic waste that is in line with a genuine circular economy, as outlined in the Circular Economy Action Plan and Green Deal.

Tell the EU Council to ban EU plastic waste exports now

In January 2023, the EU Parliament voted to BAN the dumping of its plastic waste abroad. Now, the only thing standing in the way of ending this unethical practice is the 27 Environment Ministers from EU countries who will soon revise and discuss the potential law that could end plastic waste exports.

We are calling for these Ministers to aim for ambitious legislation that puts an end to plastic waste exports and finally stems the tide of EU plastic pollution.

Show your support, sign our petition

In this effort, we ask that you read through our manifesto to learn more about the issue, and sign it to urge policymakers to take action.

READ THE MANIFESTO SIGN HERE

For more information or questions, please contact Pierre Condamine, pierre@zerowasteeurope.eu

36 Supporting Members of the European Parliament

Eleonora Evi – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Italy
Grace O’Sullivan – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Ireland
István Ujhelyi – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Hungary
César Luena – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats – Spain
Martin Hojsík – Renew Europe Group – Slovakia
Jutta Paulus – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Germany
Piernicola Pedicini – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Italy
Cyrus Engerer – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Malta
Marie Toussaint – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Sara Matthieu – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Belgium
Martin Häusling – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Germany
Pär Holmgren – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Sweden
Sarah Wiener – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Austria
Manuela Ripa – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Germany
Michèle Rivasi – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
François Alfonsi – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Benoît Biteau – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Damien Careme – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
David Cormand – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Karima Delli – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Yannick Jadot – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Caroline Roose – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Mounir Satouri – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Salima Yenbou – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Claude Gruffat – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – France
Aurore Lalucq – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – France
Mick Wallace – The Left group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL – Ireland
Günther Sidl – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Austria
Özlem Demirel – The Left group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL – Germany
Isabel Carvalhais – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Portugal
Francisco Guerreiro – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Portugal
Milan Brglez – Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Slovenia
Alviina Alametsä – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Finland
Kira Marie Peter-Hansen – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Denmark
Margrete Auken – Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – Denmark