Petroplastic

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Recycling as Greenwashing

Up until 2017, most of the plastic waste collected in Europe and in the United States was shipped to China, as was most of the mixed paper. Then Beijing imposed a new policy, known as National Sword, that prohibited imports of yang laji, or “foreign garbage.” The move left waste haulers from California to Catalonia with millions of mildewy containers they couldn’t get rid of. “plastics pile up as china refuses to take the west’s recycling,” a January, 2018, headline in the Times read. “It’s tough times,” Simon Ellin, the chief executive of Britain’s Recycling Association, told the paper.[1]

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Kolbert, "How Plastics Are Poisoning Us" in _The New Yorker_, 26 June 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste
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