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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by keeganjw on Friday August 03, 2018 @11:41AM (#17680753)
This is definitely a great way to get people to recycle but I think the problem here is that because recycling companies can't send plastics and paper to China they don't have anywhere to sell the recycling to be reused. Not enough companies are buying it to make new products
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Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling by mgbmtl on Friday August 03, 2018 @11:47AM (#17680810)
That's often because the recycled materials are of low quality, due to lack of sorting.
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