At the meeting of the EU Environment Council in late March, Denmark, France and Sweden spoke in favour of subjecting trans-border shipments of textile waste to the control procedures of the Basel Convention. This would make prior notification and consent obligatory for such deliveries.
Exports of hazardous textile waste, such as material contaminated with chemicals or paint, should be banned altogether, the countries say. This would mean that textile waste would be treated under the Basel Convention in the same way as other problematic waste streams such as plastics and e-waste, Denmark's representatives said during the Council meeting....
