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Thai PBS, Broadcasted on 07 September 2018 | Backpack Journalist

TV Report (In Thai) on Thailand & E-Waste Crisis

Bangkok Post 07 September 2018

Thailand is trying to ship more than 2,000 containers currently held at local ports back to their countries of origin after their owners were unable to claim them.

06 September 2018

Global Partnership for Action on Plastic Waste Also Proposed

Geneva – The 11th Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Basel Convention, the world’s only international treaty on waste control, concluded with widespread and growing support for a proposal by Norway to add plastic waste to the list of wastes subject to the trade controls under the convention.

DPA / Sydney Morning Herald 16 August 2018

Bangkok: The Thai government will ban imports of electronic and plastic waste following reports of massive piles of scrap are turning the country it into the "world's garbage bin," local media reports say.

The Nation 14 August 2018 | Pratch Rujivanarom

ACTIVISTS ARE planning to launch lawsuits against policymakers for their failure to ban certain hazardous agrochemicals in Thailand, following victories in two separate cases in the United States against major US agriculture conglomerate Monsanto.

Consumer protection organisations and the committee for healthcare system reform yesterday disclosed their decisions to sue the Hazardous Substance Committee and other related agencies for allowing the use of three harmful chemicals – paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos – by citing the successful examples of similar lawsuits in the US as role models.

The Guardian 13 August 2018 | Naaman Zhou

Greenpeace says government should be ‘exercising the precautionary principle’ until more studies conducted

Reuters 11 August 2018 | Tina Bellon

A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.

Associated Press/ Bangkok Post 10 August 2018

WASHINGTON: A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies' brains.

The chemical is widely used by Thai farmers, and is subject to protests and demands for a government ban.

The US court's action is certain to bring activists back to the fore in their campaign to ban chlorpyrifos, as well as another controversial pesticide, paraquat.

The Nation 09 August 2018

The import of plastic waste to Thailand has finally been banned, according to an update on regulations from the Industrial Works Department.

The Industrial Works Department director-general Mongkol Pruekwatana made the announcement in the Government Gazette on Tuesday, stating that the previous plastic scraps import allowance for recycling has been revoked and from now on importing plastic scraps of any kind into Thailand is prohibited.

Reuters 08 August 2018 | Tina Bellon

A trial in which a school groundskeeper alleged that his use of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his terminal cancer will go to a California jury after lawyers for both sides delivered their closing arguments on Tuesday.