Re:China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have ...
by ars on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:55PM
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> plastics are now drowning the ocean
Virtually all of that comes from just a small number of nations that dump trash in rivers, and the rest from lost fishing gear.
The ocean plastic is not from household plastic use/trash in places that might recycle it. So instead of working on recycling, maybe we should work on getting those countries proper trash service.
Re:China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have ...
by gowld on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:47PM
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I don't see the irony. World consumers asked for plastic. China provided it, and doesn't want to take it back.
Re:China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have ...
by bilbo0s on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:23PM
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Yep. We designed the products, and the packaging. Then ordered that exact combination to be manufactured in China.
You don't get to order a balsa wood table, of your own design, from a woodworker, and then complain that they won't take the balsa wood back when you want to throw the flimsy table away. Especially when you specifically asked them to make the table from balsa wood.
1.) China: $17.9B (24.7% of exported plastic items)
2.) Germany $9B (12.4%)
http://www.worldstopexports.com/plastic-item-exports-country...
plastics are now drowning the ocean, choking fishes (which the Chinese fisherman has a habit of overfishing, even going out to other countries' sea to fish). not to mention coral diseases, as well as microfibers ingested by humans. And China just dump plastics into their rivers and out into the ocean. letting the other countries take care of them.
Also, interestingly, China's boom in the early 90s came from the fact that they lacked materials, and they had to take other countries waste in order to use the waste for materials for production. Now that China's boycotting waste, the other southeast asian countries are picking up the slack (and waste), and growing their own industrial capabilities. That's why now manufacturers usually have two or three different factories in different countries, lessening dependence on China, and ready to switch when they need to (like the impending $400 billion tariff on China)