Sentence examples for waste exporters from inspiring English sources

Under the guise of promoting "free trade," lobbyists in Washington working for companies that claim to be "recyclers" but are primarily waste exporters have prevented the United States from banning the export of hazardous wastes, including electronic wastes.

As one of the most successful former waste exporters, Charles Colbert, says in a surprisingly engaging interview, the laws are not clear.

Recent reports about suspected abuses by plastic waste exporters are dispiriting reading to all those who try to do their bit for the environment by recycling packaging at home.

Her report was a bit embarrassing: She named the United States, Germany, Australia, Britain and the Netherlands as the biggest toxic-waste exporters, and said masses of toxic waste are still being sent to Africa, while the bulk of European waste goes to the Baltic countries and to Eastern and Central Europe.

China sent shock waves through the global recycling market this year when it announced it would no longer be accepting poorly sorted or dirty shipments of recyclable waste from foreign exporters.

Specifically, retailers will be required to collect small items of e-waste from consumers unless alternative schemes can be shown to be more effective and as "reversed burden of proof" will be applied to equipment suspected of being illegal waste shipments, forcing exporters to prove old equipment will be re-used and then disposed of safely outside the EU.

According to a report to the secretariat of the Basel Convention in 2003, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany were the highest exporters of waste, while Italy, France and, perhaps ironically, Germany, were the top waste importers.

Exporters of waste are under scrutiny after some have been found sending out shipments of worthless contaminated or mixed waste and claiming the notes fraudulently.

Meanwhile, China has reportedly put up a "green fence" and has stopped accepting poorly sorted or dirty shipments of the waste materials from foreign exporters.

Within five years the firm had become America's largest exporter of waste paper.An early effort to take this business a bit further, through a passive investment in a Chinese paper-making company, was a failure.

The family company has ranked as the number one U.S. exporter of waste paper since 2001 and contributes roughly 10% to Cheung's fortune.