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Poor countries are banning trash imports, while Albania is doing the opposite

2024-08-21 19:46:49Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA GJERGJ EREBARA
Poor countries are banning trash imports, while Albania is doing the opposite
Poor countries are banning trash imports, while Albania is doing the opposite

Until 2017, China was, among many other things, the international giant in the use of recyclable materials, such as plastic, paper or metals. From all over the world, ships loaded with waste arrive in China where, in theory, the processes of processing it are cheaper because of the cheap arm of labor than in rich countries, say, the United States.

This year, China decided it had imported enough trash to bother. It launched Operation "National Sword" and stopped the import of garbage. The reason is that most of the trash imported for recycling was contaminated or worthless for recycling, so it ended up in the landfill immediately after import.

China's decision caused trouble for many rich countries, which produce excess garbage because they are rich and because they don't want the hassle of going about their daily lives. Vietnam followed China by announcing bans on waste imports in 2018. Here too, the problem was the same. What was imported as raw material was actually landfill waste.

A few years later, the problem appeared in Romania. Keep in mind that Romania is a member country of the European Union and applies the legislation of the European Union, legislation that, among other things, allows the transit or importation of raw materials extracted from the separation process at the source or in waste plants. The problem was that here, as in China, through documentation suggesting that the waste was for transit purposes in the territory of Romania or that it was being imported as raw material, it actually ended up buried. In the absence of China, Romania and several other countries of the world suddenly turned into the garbage fields of the rich world. ( Link )

In the link above you can find a news item from Radio Free Europe, which, in 2021, quotes Romania's environment minister: "What in theory comes with these containers is raw material for recycling," said Tanczos Barna. "I say 'theoretically' because very often in these containers there is something else than what is declared."

Facing the same problem, last year, Thailand announced a ban on the import of garbage. Now Indonesia is the country that is becoming the garbage dump of the world and is thinking of blocking imports, which, in theory, continue to be harmless.

The Albanian government has recently proposed once again, for the fourth time in 20 years, to allow the import of garbage, this proposal within the framework of the theoretical benefits of the few factories that Albania has and that have requests for such materials. According to the proposal, requests for imports will be made to the Council of Ministers, which will approve, case by case, the requests for imports.


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