As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by deepGem on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:30PM (#19411843)

My city Bangalore effectively enforced a plastic ban. So some grocery stores now only have paper bags even to pack veggies. I think it's doable. The government enforced the ban as there was no alternative, we don't have enough space for landfills.

A city like Singapore however uses a lot of plastic and thermocol. I wonder where they find space for their landfills. Probably they are doing the same, exporting all the trash to China or Indonesia.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by xvilka on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:15PM (#19411999)

China still accepts rare-earth/metal trash, but also properly sorted trash too. For example, recently mainland declined to accept Hong Kong trash until they implement sorting. On these conditions, they can continue sending their garbage to the mainland China.

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