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  2. China's waste import ban - Wikipedia

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    The restriction of recycling materials, which banned by China, will eventually forces the industries to use the raw materials. However, using the recycling materials to produce same amount of products are much more energy efficient and material saving than adopting raw materials, which presumably not a good news for the environment.

  3. Operation National Sword - Wikipedia

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    The Operation National Sword (ONS) was a policy initiative launched in 2017 by the government of China to monitor and more stringently review recyclable waste imports. [1] By 1 January 2018, China had banned 24 categories of solid waste and had also stopped importing plastic waste with a contamination level of above 0.05 percent, which was significantly lower than the 10 percent that it had ...

  4. Electronic waste in China - Wikipedia

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    China is the world's largest importer and producer of electronic waste [1] with over 70% of all global e-waste ending up in the world's largest dumpsites. [2] An estimated 60–80% of this e-waste is handled through illegal informal recycling processes, without the necessary safety precautions legally required by Chinese government regulations.

  5. China starts new recycling drive as foreign trash ban widens

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    China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling "bases" by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its resources after extending a ban on foreign trash imports. A long ...

  6. Recycling options dwindle for councils hit by China ban - AOL

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    Until earlier this year, the UK sent a big chunk of its used plastic to China, where it was used to make items such as computers, toys and appliances. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has ...

  7. List of websites blocked in mainland China - Wikipedia

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    China Firewall Test - Test if any domain is DNS poisoned in China in real-time. DNS poisoning is one way in which websites can be blocked. Others are IP blocking and keyword filtering. China Firewall Test - Test your website from real browsers in China. You can review performance reports and waterfall charts for further analysis and element-by ...

  8. Explainer-After China's mineral export ban, how else could it ...

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    BEIJING (Reuters) -China has banned exports to the U.S. of some goods containing critical minerals while tightening exports on others, after U.S. curbs a day earlier on the Chinese chip industry.

  9. Gutter oil - Wikipedia

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    The first documented case of gutter oil in mainland China was reported in 2000, when a street vendor was found to be selling oil obtained from restaurant garbage disposals. [10] Some street vendors and restaurants in China are reported to have illegally used recycled oil unfit for human consumption to cook food. [11] [12] [13] [14]