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Wonder if this is connected to China ceasing to accept trash/recycling from the US. I really hate that recycling became essentially a for-profit shell game of
by manachar 5y ago
Wonder if this is connected to China ceasing to accept trash/recycling from the US.
I really hate that recycling became essentially a for-profit shell game of shipping it somewhere else to be a problem rather than dealing with building the domestic infrastructure needed to correctly handle it (including not overselling recycling so we could get waste-to-energy plants as part of the mix).
- nomaxx117 5y agoIt could have some small connection, but I would probably guess (based of of general trends) that it has to do with some regions or cities not yet having adequate waste disposal systems.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoAre outsiders allowed to confirm the official numbers form China?
- contingencies 5y agoI live at the end of the Pearl River Delta and regularly cross it by boat and travel along the shoreline. There is not a great deal of surface-visible physical plastic trash floating out of the river. Especially additionally considering the huge number of people living here (~100M+ within 100km radius), it is very well collected and managed versus rivers in the developing world. None of that mud-mixed-with-plastic-refuse buildup you often see in, say, India, Thailand, or undredged canal systems.
- MengerSponge 5y agoIt's basically why China stopped accepting "recycling" (aka trash): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword