Now That China Has Refused To Recycle The West’s Plastics, Where Will They Go?
Some 106 million metric tons — about 45 percent — of the world’s plastics set for recycling have been exported to China since reporting to the United Nations Comtrade Database began in 1992.
But in 2017, China passed the National Sword policy banning plastic waste from being imported — for the protection of the environment and people’s health — beginning in January 2018.
Now that China won’t take it, what’s happening to the leftover waste?Goats and Soda
NPR