China no longer accepting U.S. Recyclable materials

[Greg.D.]

Or, just about to stop. Will probably go to landfills now:

 

 

Trash piles up in the US as China closes door to recycling

 

Last year, China bought up more than half of the scrap materials exported by the United States.

Globally, since 1992, 72 percent of plastic waste has ended up in China and Hong Kong, according to a study in the journal Science Advances.

But since January, China has closed its borders to most paper and plastic waste in line with a new environmental policy pushed by Beijing, which no longer wants to be the world’s trash can, or even its recycle bin.

 

 

 

Other scrap importer countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam or India are incapable of absorbing the tens of millions of tons that China had previously taken.

And few American industries possess the ability to treat the waste.

“The biggest issue here is that China just gave very little time for the industry to transition,” said Adler.