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At the beginning of the year China imposed a ban on importing plastic items to be "recycled" unless they were 99.5% pure Well, it seems that a large chunk of those things you put in the recycle bin actually got shipped to China. Because *cough* *cough* China is able to more efficiently "process" recyclable plastics than anyone else. It's cheaper to ship it to China than to recycle it ourselves.
Here is a little fact...China leads the world in plastic pollution. To the tune of 8.5 million tons of plastic flowing down the rivers into the Pacific every year.
Jeez, can somebody help me connect those dots???
I mean, which department do you go to in China to verify that the plastics they import for "recycling" don't end up in the Pacific?
Well, anyhow, now they are only allowing in the plastics that are actually economical to recycle, so less plastics will be going into the ocean. Ya Think?
Now that they can't be sent to China...
wait for it...
They are being incinerated. Yup, the contents of those blue bins are going to be burned, not "recycled."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...nta-incinerator-recyclables-china-ban-imports
Here is a little fact...China leads the world in plastic pollution. To the tune of 8.5 million tons of plastic flowing down the rivers into the Pacific every year.
Jeez, can somebody help me connect those dots???
I mean, which department do you go to in China to verify that the plastics they import for "recycling" don't end up in the Pacific?
Well, anyhow, now they are only allowing in the plastics that are actually economical to recycle, so less plastics will be going into the ocean. Ya Think?
Now that they can't be sent to China...
wait for it...
They are being incinerated. Yup, the contents of those blue bins are going to be burned, not "recycled."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...nta-incinerator-recyclables-china-ban-imports
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