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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by Joker_vD on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:44PM (#28132586)
Or if you're more conscientious, you ship it to China instead. Then, of course, one day COVID hits, China closes its borders and your green, eco-friendly, carbon-reducing recycling facility grinds to a halt because the plastic keeps coming but you can't ship it away.
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by nradov on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:07PM (#28134551)
China stopped accepting most recycling waste in 2019 before COVID hit.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/750864036/u-s-recycling-indus...

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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by rad_gruchalski on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:29PM (#28133109)
In Poland this has been going on for years. It has nothing to do with China and covid.
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by gruez on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:52PM (#28134352)
>Then, of course, one day COVID hits, China closes its borders

I doubt China closed its borders to cargo because of covid.

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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by tpmx on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @03:22PM (#28133039)
> Or if you're more conscientious, you ship it to China instead

Are you seriously claiming that the Chinese government is better than the Polish government at making sure this kind of trash is handled correctly?

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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by jazzyjackson on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:33PM (#28134060)
I feel this must have been sarcasm, probably related to how sending plastic to a recycling facility was just as likely to end up in the ocean thanks to China buying it off of recycling dealers (for ballast IIRC, can't send all those cargo ships back empty)
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by tpmx on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:35PM (#28134931)
It wasn't sarcasm.
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by Joker_vD on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:55PM (#28135819)
No, it actually was. Source: I wrote that comment.
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by tpmx on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:09PM (#28135960)
Okay, seems like it was hijacked. My comment ("Are you seriously claiming that the Chinese government is better than the Polish government at making sure this kind of trash is handled correctly?") is currently at -4.
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Re:The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire by stevenhuang on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:56PM (#28135825)
Your sarcasm meter is likely broken I'm afraid
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