Plastic waste trade balance South Korea 2011-2022
In 2022, the trade balance of plastic waste in South Korea amounted to a deficit of around 23.3 million U.S. dollars. Exports of plastic waste had been higher than imports in 2017, but reversed afterwards. South Korea produced more than four thousand tons of plastic waste every day, but a huge amount of plastic waste is imported to the country due to the non-recyclable materials of domestic plastic products.