When you drop those bottles and plastic containers off to be recycled, do you know where they go? The United States exports around one third of recycling, and almost half of that heads over to China. But China recently decided to ban some solid garbage, saying foreign waste often has too many hazardous or dirty non-recyclable items. This has prompted some waste collection and recycling companies to take items that could have been recycled to landfills. Related:
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/china-bans-foreign-waste-leading-to-recycling-turmoil-in-america
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