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Environment & Energy

lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Sat Jul 14, 2018, 06:11 PM Jul 2018

For months, a major recycling facility for the greater Baltimore-Washington area has been facing a big problem: it has to pay to get rid of huge amounts of paper and plastic it would normally sell to China.

Beijing is no longer buying, claiming the recycled materials are "contaminated."

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/07/12/trash-piles-up-in-us-as-china-closes-door-to-recycling.html