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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by nostromo on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:21PM (#24449302)
In most cases it seems US municipalities paid firms in China to take their recycling, not the other way around.

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycli...

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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by Aunche on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:28PM (#24449327)
I don't think that's what the article is saying. They're paying people to take trash because they no longer can sell it to China.
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Re:How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Woul... by rapnie on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:02AM (#24450222)
I saw in a recent documentary that significant amounts of this trash are now shipped to Africa and just about dumped everywhere.
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