15 Sep 2022 --- US-based environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy has issued a retraction and apology for a report promoting incineration and blaming Asian countries for the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Titled “Stemming the Tide,” the report was branded an example of “waste colonialism” by numerous NGOs. Published in 2015, the report followed a research article published in Science that estimated, for the first time, how much plastic was entering the ocean from land due to mismanaged waste.
