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  • China's National Sword continues to cut into US recycling

    03/15/2018 8:05:48 AM PDT · by Rio · 22 replies
    Plastics News ^ | 3/14/2018 | Jim Johnson
    Many plastic recyclers are probably making their best quality bales ever, but the seismic shifts in the marketplace, thanks to China's National Sword program, have people still scrambling to move the material. That's the view of Hamilton Wen, director of the plastics division at Newport CH International LLC of Orange, Calif., a broker of recycled plastics. Global market conditions for recycled plastics are evolving due to the implementation of China's National Sword, which essentially banned the import of a variety of recycled materials into that country, including plastics. "It's tough, just because you are making the best quality you ever...