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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. Why most plastic isn’t getting recycled - AOL

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    Even that figure counted millions of tons of plastic exported to China, much of it dumped or burned. In 2018, China stopped taking American trash. That sent the U.S. recycling rate spiraling ...

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

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    The council's cabinet member for regulatory services and the environment Hayley Eachus said: "There has been a drop in the market for recycling mixed plastics making it unviable for the company ...

  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. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Big Oil Sold the World on a Plastics Recycling Myth. It May ...

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  9. China's circular economy - Wikipedia

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    China has learned from this by making EIP's and industry-wide recycling initiatives as core functions of their circular economy. [9] Germany has been effective in promoting sustainable material management through better product design and interdependence between industrial projects, whereas China has advanced these techniques in their own ...