The Waste Shipments Correspondents have published a new updated guidelines on plastic waste. These guidelines were developed to provide guidance, legal clarity and certainty on the classification and new entries of plastic waste in the Waste Shipment Regulation. The changes are a follow-up of decision BC-14/12 by the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention in May 2019 and a decision at OECD level in September 2020 on new categories for plastic waste. The guidelines apply from 3 December 2021 and should be reviewed at the latest three years from the above date and, if necessary, revised.