After a few months, rumors were going around saying that the Trash Pack toy line was ending. Moose Toys finally confirmed that Series 7 was the last series in the summer of 2015. The toy line was eventually revived as The Grossery Gang, a spin-off of the Trash Pack, in the summer of 2016. This toy line ended in 2019.

The rarest limited editions are Grimy Gold, Squish Bone, Poop Plop, Scrambled Rat, and Captain Contagious from Trash pack; Grimy Gold and Squish Bone from the trading card collections; and Stinkin' Soda and Ghost Trash turtle from Trash Wheels. All of these have 250 units that were numbered.

For more than two decades, the country was also the dumping ground for foreign nations' trash as the world's largest importer. In 2017, the year before China's strict import ban came into effect, the country imported almost 600,000 metric tons of plastic waste.

General waste generated in Tokyo undergoes intermediate treatment such as incineration, and then 100% of the incinerator ash is disposed of in landfill sites within Tokyo.

Based on 2018 Census Bureau export data for shipments of plastic waste generated in the U.S. and sent to other countries, about 157,000 large 20-ft shipping containers (429 per day) of U.S. plastic waste was shipped to China and other countries, countries that are not known to be recycled plastic users or exporters.

In March 2018, China's environment minister at the time, Li Ganjie, noted that China used to import around 4 to 4.5 million tons of solid, unrecyclable trash. Twenty years later, the volume of solid waste had grown to 45 million tons.

Incineration. An incinerator facility in Chiba, Japan. Incineration is the most widely used waste disposal method in Japan, and is attractive because of its ability to reduce the volume of trash in a country mostly occupied by mountains or people.

Japan has a garbage problem, and it has a name – gomi-yashiki – or rubbish houses, local eyesores whose owners spill mounds of rubbish onto the streets and surrounding properties, attracting pests, causing problems for local governments across the country.

For years, America sold millions of tons of used yogurt cups, juice containers, shampoo bottles and other kinds of plastic trash to China to be recycled into new products. And it wasn't just the U.S. Some 70 percent of the world's plastic waste went to China – about 7 million tons a year.

Based on 2018 Census Bureau export data for shipments of plastic waste generated in the U.S. and sent to other countries, about 157,000 large 20-ft shipping containers (429 per day) of U.S. plastic waste was shipped to China and other countries, countries that are not known to be recycled plastic users or exporters.

In 2021, approximately 43 percent of the total waste generated in South Korea consisted of commercial and industrial waste, followed by construction and demolition waste with a share of 42.5 percent. According to the source, approximately 197 million tons of waste was generated in South Korea that year.

For years, America sold millions of tons of used yogurt cups, juice containers, shampoo bottles and other kinds of plastic trash to China to be recycled into new products. And it wasn't just the U.S. Some 70 percent of the world's plastic waste went to China – about 7 million tons a year.