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China’s plastic import ban increases prospects of environmental impact mitigation of plastic waste trade flow worldwide

Nature Communications
Published: 18 January 2021
Zongguo Wen, Yiling Xie, Muhan Chen & Christian Doh Dinga

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

The Trade in Plastic Waste

https://www.grida.no/publications/333
Type: Story Maps
Publisher: GRID-Arendal
Year of publication: 2017
Author: Ieva Ruceskva, Iris Carla De Jesus, Levi Westerveld, Thirze Hermans

The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic waste trade

Science Advances
Received: 15 January 2018
Accepted: 11 May 2018
Amy L. Brooks $^a$, Shunli Wang $^a$, Jenna R. Jambeck $^a$,

$^a$ College of Engineering, New Materials Institute, University of Georgia, Riverbend Research Lab South, 220 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

eurostat

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/waste/data
EU waste data, Waste shipment statistics.

Modelling the global impact of China’s ban on plastic waste imports

Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Received 15 May 2019, Revised 20 November 2019, Accepted 20 November 2019, Available online 10 December 2019.
Qiao Huang et al.
School of Statistics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

https://xiaoshan1994.github.io/post/re_12282/

UN Comtrade Database

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Methodology Guide for UN Comtrade User on UN Comtrade Upgrade 2019
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) and HS (Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding Systems )
UN Comtrade Knowledgebase

The newest data updates to September 2021 (access on 04/01/2022).

Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

Published: 02 December 2021
Nature Sustainability
Livia Cabernard, Stephan Pfister, Christopher Oberschelp & Stefanie Hellweg

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Ecological Systems Design, Zürich, Switzerland

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP), Zürich, Switzerland

https://xiaoshan1994.github.io/post/re_220112/

Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input-output approach

First published: 12 August 2021
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Ciprian Cimpan, Eivind Lekve Bjelle, Anders Hammer Strømman
Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of energy and process engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway