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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by gozur88 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:31AM (#15890113)
You're underestimating the amount of pollution other countries produced during industrialization. There used to be rivers in the US that were flammable because manufacturers discharges so many volatile effluents into them.

London's "killer fog" is quite famous, and Russia's Lake Karachay still holds the distinction as the most polluted spot on earth.

Sure, China affects its neighbors. China is a big country compared to Sweden.

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by Houshalter on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:22AM (#15890393)
England was so polluted that the wildlife evolved dark camouflage to blend in with soot covered trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by cannonedhamster on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:42PM (#15900241)
Pulping and paper plants in the Northeast US used to dump all kinds of junk into rivers. You could tell what color paper was being printed by what color the river was. Lots of really toxic things were done by the US on their way to where they are now.
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