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It has been a year since China jammed the works of\u00a0recycling programs<\/a>\u00a0around the world by essentially\u00a0shutting down<\/a>what had been the industry\u2019s biggest market. China\u2019s National Sword policy, enacted in January 2018, banned the import of most\u00a0plastics<\/a>\u00a0and other materials headed for that nation\u2019s recycling processors, which had handled nearly half of the world\u2019s recyclable waste for the past quarter century. The move was an effort to halt a deluge of soiled and contaminated materials that was overwhelming Chinese processing facilities and leaving the country with yet another environmental problem\u2014and this one not of its own making.<\/p>\n

In the year since, China\u2019s plastic imports have plummeted by 99 percent, leading to a major global shift in where and how materials tossed in the recycling bin are being processed. While the glut of plastics is the main concern, China\u2019s imports of mixed paper have also dropped by a third. Recycled aluminum and glass are less affected by the ban.<\/p>\n

Globally, more plastics are now ending up in landfills, incinerators, or likely littering the environment as rising costs to haul away recyclable materials increasingly render the practice unprofitable. In England, more than half a million more tons of plastics and other household garbage were burned last year. Australia\u2019s recycling industry is facing a crisis as the country struggles to handle the 1.3\u00a0million-ton stockpile of recyclable waste it had previously shipped to China.<\/p>\n

Read full article at www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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