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Doesn't China buy up a lot of US / EU plastic waste via recycling programmes? Are these numbers offset because once China buys the waste, they simply dump it? A
by ASlave2Gravity 8y ago
Doesn't China buy up a lot of US / EU plastic waste via recycling programmes? Are these numbers offset because once China buys the waste, they simply dump it? Are we knowingly selling our plastic waste to a state that will miss-manage it? I know China lately has stopped buying plastic waste from states.
- theandrewbailey 8y agoChina doesn't take plastic anymore. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-b...
- undersuit 8y agoThe article that GP linked uses data from 2010. It might take longer than two years for the effect of China refusing the US's trash to actually make a change in media graphics.
- swebs 8y agoYou obviously have access to the internet. Feel free to look it up before posting instead of clogging the comments with things that might be true.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't cross into incivility in comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html