The first 20 containers of medical waste, which included body parts from mortuaries, were loaded on the MV Texas Triumph on Friday

Why Sri Lanka is sending back illegal waste to the UK? Explainer

Sri Lanka has started shipping 242 containers of hazardous waste back to Britain after a two year court battle by an environment watchdog.

Sri Lanka returns illegal waste to UK, first 20 containers loaded

Sri Lanka has shipped back to Britain container-loads of waste that the government said was brought into the island in violation of international laws governing the shipping of hazardous material.

Sri Lanka returns 21 containers of illegal waste to Britain

Sri Lanka has ordered the return of 213 <a href="https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/sri-lanka-orders-return-of-smuggled-british-garbage-238016">containers of waste from Britain </a>after finding, plastic and biological waste including suspected human body parts in the shipments, government officials said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of Asian countries to reject shipments of waste from Western countries after China banned such imports, disrupting the global flow of millions of tonnes of waste each year.

"There is an investigation going on and we`ve also informed the importers to re-export immediately to the first port it was exported from," said Sri Lanka Customs spokesman Sunil Jayaratne told Reuters.&nbsp;

"The UK has violated the Basel Convention," he said, referring to a UN treaty on the trade of plastic waste.

Over the last two months, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia have all ordered the return of waste shipments to Canada, the United States, Japan, France, Australia and other countries.&nbsp;

About 180 countries reached a deal in May to amend the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic waste more transparent and better regulated, while also ensuring that its management is safer for human health and the environment.&nbsp;

The United States, the world`s top exporter of plastic waste, has not ratified the 30-year-old pact.

Sri Lanka has ordered the return of 213 containers of waste from Britain after finding, plastic and biological waste including suspected human body parts in the shipments, government officials said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka has ordered the return of 213 containers of waste from Britain after finding, plastic and biological waste including suspected human body parts in the shipments, government officials said on Thursday. Sri Lanka is the latest in a string of Asian countries to reject shipments of waste from Western countries after China banned such imports, disrupting the global flow of millions of tonnes of waste each year. "There is an investigation going on and we`ve also informed the importers to re-export immediately to the first port it was exported from," said Sri Lanka Customs spokesman Sunil Jayaratne told Reuters. "The UK has violated the Basel Convention," he said, referring to a UN treaty on the trade of plastic waste. Over the last two months, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia have all ordered the return of waste shipments to Canada, the United States, Japan, France, Australia and other countries. About 180 countries reached a deal in May to amend the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic waste more transparent and better regulated, while also ensuring that its management is safer for human health and the environment. The United States, the world`s top exporter of plastic waste, has not ratified the 30-year-old pact.

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Why Sri Lanka is sending back illegal waste to the UK? Explainer

Sri Lanka returns illegal waste to UK, first 20 containers loaded

Sri Lanka returns 21 containers of illegal waste to Britain

Sri Lanka raises stink over waste consignments from Britain