Will China’s crackdown on ‘foreign garbage’ force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?
In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap, which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. Immediately, organizations such as the U.S.-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the #Bureau_of_International_Recycling warned that China’s action would cause job losses, shut down many U.S. recycling facilities and send more waste to landfills.
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