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Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

Posted: 06 Jan 2021 09:01 PM PST

China's 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country's role as the recycling bin for the world's post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China […] Related posts: Out of Sorts: Rural Waste Problems in China and the United States What China's Ban on Plastic Scrap...

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