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That's interesting, do you have a source for that? A quick Google search turns up aircraft, machinery, and agricultural products (and doesn't mention garbage),
by twentythree 8y ago
That's interesting, do you have a source for that? A quick Google search turns up aircraft, machinery, and agricultural products (and doesn't mention garbage), but I'd be curious to learn more.
- Scoundreller 8y agoIt probably is by volume. Lots of otherwise empty containers going back. Makes sense to jam them with junk when the ship has to be repatriated anyway.
- baybal2 8y ago> For more than five years, scrap and trash has consistently been the US’s biggest export https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/09/chinas-crackdown-on-trash-could-make-it-harder-for-u-s-cities-to-recycle/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/09/china... And it is likely to be more as trash is often declared as raw plastic, cellulose, aluminium billets, or "electronic components" to evade numerous bans that China been enacting over the last decade. This is also why American own material statistics by US ITC is likely a better measure (access to ITC data is paid)
- bhelkey 8y agoThat article doesn't contain the quoted line. However, it does contain the following line: >Since 2007, one of America's top exports to China has been... trash Assuming positive intent, it is possible that the article was edited in the five hours since you linked it. However, it was written in 2013 so that seems unlikely.
- baybal2 8y agoI was homed onto the link by https://qz.com/82640/china-doesnt-want-your-trash-anymore-and-that-could-spell-big-trouble-for-american-cities/ https://qz.com/82640/china-doesnt-want-your-trash-anymore-an... the quote is from there. Did not notice that it wasn't from the original article.