Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on...

We study the implications of the Chinese waste import ban of 2018 on intraEuropean plastic waste trade. Specifically, we ask if it led to a "waste haven" effect, which would imply that countries with high disposal and recycling costs started to export more plastic waste to countries with lower...