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The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary

The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary

1 March 2019

Last year China banned imports of foreign waste, temporarily disrupting US recycling efforts. In the meantime, some US communities are burning their waste
rubbish mountain

China's plan to stop recycling the world's rubbish may backfire

3 January 2018

China is giving Western nations a headache with a ban on imports of "foreign garbage" to recycle, but the move is also creating a Chinese cardboard shortage

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