[OKRA] China will no longer take plastic waste from US to be recycled

[Karen Miles]

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The U.S. sent a small mountain of our recycling across the Pacific to China last year. This year, there is nowhere for it to go

Citing health concerns and environmental protection, China shut down imports of plastic scrap. Malaysia, Thailand or Vietnam have picked up some of the 372,000-metric-ton business but are quickly capping out their capacities. So it's piling up in landfills and being dumped into incinerators here.

"This export mindset that has developed in the U.S. is one that has to change," says a Yale policy expert<http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=f8b506f96b2d4f74929351e36c931a8ede10c8953aa12b12698610355501e0a2fe87def4707d6cc43353c5b4aba87a9eadc2f8fff0ac92c5>.



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