There was a better article about this earlier this year in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html https://www.

There was a better article about this earlier this year in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-b... Corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16174719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16174719