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Mountains of US recycling pile up as China restricts imports

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https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-01/mountains-us-recycling-pile-china-restricts-imports

After you collect your cans, bottles and paper, then put them out by the curb, do you ever think about where everything goes after the truck picks things up? Largely, it goes to China.

Every day, nearly 4,000 shipping containers full of recyclables leave US ports bound for China. China sends the US toys, clothes and electronics; in return, some of America’s largest exports back are paper, plastic and aluminum.

But that equation is changing as of Jan. 1 — China is enforcing its new “National Sword” policy, which bans 24 types of solid waste, including various plastics and unsorted mixed papers, and sets a much tougher standard for contamination levels.

China notified the World Trade Organization about the ban in July, essentially saying the country would no longer act as the world’s trash dump. Currently, China consumes 55 percent of the world’s scrap paper and is a major destination for other recyclables.
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So basically, China is saying "keep it" because they don't want to deal with it anymore because it's not clean enough. Greasy pizza boxes, and fast food wrappers for example.

Kinda like plugging the USA's bung hole.
 
chuckiechan said:
Beats sending back empty containers.
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Yep.

We need to perhaps demand for every container of goods they sell us, we return the container with goods made or grown here.
 
Media_Truth said:
Oops, I guess Trump didn't count on that!
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I'll bet the union workers would be happy with a few extra hours filling empty containers with anything to ship back.

We should do i if they like it or not!
 
Lord of Planar said:
I'll bet the union workers would be happy with a few extra hours filling empty containers with anything to ship back.

We should do i if they like it or not!
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I've noticed that everytime Trump threatens new boycotts, etc., with China; the stock market predictably drops. I'll bet all his billionaire bids are exercising their stock options.
 
Media_Truth said:
I've noticed that everytime Trump threatens new boycotts, etc., with China; the stock market predictably drops. I'll bet all his billionaire bids are exercising their stock options.
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That means taxes to be paid!
 
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