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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-12-10 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2017-12-10 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"The U.S. exports about one-third of its recycling, and nearly half goes to China."

What that really means, is, 'There was badly-thought out legislation for recycling which didn't also provide the infrastructure to deal with it, and so for years it's just been handed over to China to be someone else's problem'.

I'm pretty sure I've read the UK dumps a lot of recycling on China too.
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[personal profile] momentsmusicaux 2017-12-10 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a bit of a kludge, and also it's spending energy on moving recycling around which is a bit daft too.