As China brings into effect further recycling rules, could the country become a new model for urban recycling, asks Charlotte Middlehurst Before new recycling rules came into effect last summer, taking out the trash used to be simple for Ni Yuan, a resident of a leafy middle-class Shanghai neighbourhood. She would sort household waste into only two categories, wet and dry, and deposit it at her convenience. On July 1, …
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China has announced it will be banning single-use and non-degradable bags as well as single-use straws. Although figures are hard to come by, it is thought that, globally, China is the largest producer of plastic waste, with much ending up in landfill sites. The National Development and Reform Commission issued the new policy on January 19th, 2020, and said it will be implemented over the next five years. It states …
Up until the start of 2018, China was the world largest importer of waste. Around half of the world’s plastics, paper and metal wastes were shipped to China for repurposing and between 60 and 70 percent of waste from the UK. This all ended on January 1st, when China declared a ban on the import of most recycled waste, as part of a pledge to clean up polluting industries and …