China trash ban a wake-up call to global recycling industry

[yortsed snacilbuper]

China's trash import ban is giving the global recycling industry an enormous headache. The flip side: the world has finally been forced to rethink its approach to waste.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/china-trash-ban-a-wake-up-call-to-global-recycling-industry/ar-AAw6YWW?ocid=spartanntp

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. K&R! nt

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[patricia92243]

3. They are saying they might fine - or whatever- users of plastic. It HAS to be from the

manufacturer. People can't use less plastic unless some alternative is provided.

My city will not even accept glass to be recycled because there is such a small amount and will not be accepted at a recycle place.

[MontanaMama]

4. I am very worried about

not being able to recycle plastics. We are rabid recyclers in this house and I’d be heartbroken to have to throw plastic in the trash. I am very pessimistic about the world rethinking its approach to waste. I’m shocked on a daily basis how many people just don’t care about what they throw away.

[erronis]

5. That'll majorly suck if the USofA needs to stuff its own shit in its own front yard.

The picture of all the suburbanites (including me) with festering piles of "stuff" that can't be offloaded to some country/are that most of us don't know where-the-fuck it is.

Since the US has become a cesspool recently, why don't we just store all the world's trash where the US's trashiest person lives?

It's about time for the rest of the world starts giving us what they think of us.

[Roy Rolling]

6. The World Leader

A Communist country like China leads the world in things like this, the U.S. spends $700 billion a year making weapons to blow things up if needed. Which, incidentally, nobody has invaded the US militarily since the War of 1812. And all the battleships in our fleet couldn't stop Russia from stealing our election.

[JunkYardDogg]

7. This problem is NOT the fault of the recycling industry

Unfortunately, as the article states, there has been very little technological advances in the recycling of plastic scrap.
This China ban has been developing for a few years now, at the beginning, it was called China's Green Curtain
The ban on plastic scrap is causing tremendous problems for U.S. businesses who are involved with recycling beverage containers.
In California, to be a State Certified Recycling Center, whereby the center is able to get reimbursed for the State mandated Recycling deposit, which the center pays back to the customers recycling their containers, the Recycling Center MUST buy back ALL CRV deposit beverage containers, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles. Aluminum cans is the only item which a center can make a profit from. The plastic value does not cover the costs. The glass bottles are worst, the value does not even cover the transportation costs, let alone the handling costs.
The bans on various scrap metals probably have little or nothing to do with any associated contamination. They seem to not want material that is not pretty to look at.
The only material which they object to which can be problematic is electronic scrap.

[aeromanKC]

8. Trump trip to China is cancelled

Due to China trash import ban.

[FarCenter]

9. Annual plastic production is about 400 billion kilos or a cube 740 meters on a side.