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| 2018 || General || Policy || The Chinese National Sword comes into effect in February to ban imports of 24 types of waste material and set a tougher standard for contamination levels in others. Many scrap materials are banned and others are not accepted unless they meet an extremely strict contamination rate of 0.5 percent. This policy would be regarded by many as a “catastrophe” that will have a “devastating impact” on global recycling.<ref>{{cite web |title=COULD THE CHINESE NATIONAL SWORD INSPIRE GLOBAL RECYCLING INNOVATION? |url=https://recycling.tomra.com/blog/chinese-national-sword-inspire-global-recycling-innovation |website=recycling.tomra.com |accessdate=4 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How American Recycling Is Changing After China’s National Sword |url=https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/04/recycling-waste-management-us-china-national-sword-change/584665/ |website=citylab.com |accessdate=11 February 2020}}</ref> || {{w|China}}
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| 2018 || General || Program launch || The {{w|World Economic Forum}}, {{w|World Resources Institute}}, {{w|Philips}}, {{w|Ellen MacArthur Foundation}}, {{w|United Nations Environment Programme}}, and over 40 other partners launch the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). The {{w|circular economy}} is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sdg.iisd.org:443/news/wef-launches-public-private-platform-on-circular-economy/|title=WEF Launches Public-Private Platform on Circular Economy {{!}} News {{!}} SDG Knowledge Hub {{!}} IISD|last=Hub|first=IISD's SDG Knowledge|access-date=27 May 2020}}</ref> ||
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| 2019 || {{w|Plastic waste}} || Research || A research group led scientists of {{w|Washington State University}} finds a way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2019-06-group-plastic-products-jet-fuel.html|title=Research group finds way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel|website=phys.org}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
