[CMB_polarization]

Start here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html

[CMB_polarization]

Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling (JAN. 11, 2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html

[cyclotic]

Thanks,

How amazing. Con the world into saving and cleaning garbage so you can “recycle” it and at the same time, have absolutely nothing to “recycle” the garbage into.

There is no reasonable use for the vast majority of recyclables. It’s truly nothing more than an expensive make work project for otherwise unemployable people who can do nothing more than to “explore the exciting world of recyclable sorting.”

Aluminum alone makes fiscal sense, the rest should be sent to landfills where it can be wisely managed. Deterioration creates methane which is collected and sold for profit. If the world ever discovers a use for used pop bottles, there are hundreds of ready made mining facilities.

Instead, municipalities waste millions in these stupid feel good endeavors so people think they are “doing something.”