EPISODE · Jun 21, 2018 · 5 MIN
China Won’t Solve the World’s Plastics Problem Any More
from Science, Spoken · host SpokenLayer
For a long time, China has been a dumping ground for the world’s problematic plastics. In the 1990s, Chinese markets saw that discarded plastic could be profitably recreated into exportable bits and bobs—and it was less expensive for international cities to send their waste to China than to deal with it themselves. China got cheap plastic and the exporting countries go rid of their trash. But in November 2017, China said enough. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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For a long time, China has been a dumping ground for the world’s problematic plastics. In the 1990s, Chinese markets saw that discarded plastic could be profitably recreated into exportable bits and bobs—and it was less expensive for international cities to send their waste to China than to deal with it themselves. China got cheap plastic and the exporting countries go rid of their trash. But in November 2017, China said enough.
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China Won’t Solve the World’s Plastics Problem Any More
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