China bans recycling from the USA-garbage bills to soar!

[Boxerfan]

MAGA!!!

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/china-trash-recycling-environment/index.html

Just heard this on the local Portland Oregon news-this is huge as this was our main export IIRC....

[donkeypoofed]

1. Funny that when you piss on people,they don't like it!

This is just the beginning ..

[Kittycow]

2. Yeah.. hubby opened our PDX garbage bill and was not happy!

We recyle everything we can but they charge to take it away as well as what's leftover for garbage.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. WOW...in our community 55+ about 1600 homes..we have a partnership with a charity

for recycle of plastic, glass, cardboard, tin, and aluminum...the partnership and the HOA split the revenue from the recycled material..helps the charity with funding, and also adds revenue to the HOA....we just started recycling textiles..

[Crash2Parties]

3. Our main export is...used packaging.

[herding cats]

4. This one actually isn't tariff related.

It's just China trying to clean up their country. They're no longer accepting "foreign trash" from the Western nations including the US. They announced the ban last year and it went into effect January 1 of this year.

U.S. Recycling Woes Pile Up as China Escalates Ban

Tens of thousands of tons of recyclables have been diverted to U.S. landfills in recent months as the reality of China’s new ban on certain types of imported waste takes hold.

The ban, which went into effect Jan. 1, covers imports of 24 types of solid waste, including unsorted paper and the difficult-to-recycle types of plastic, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET), commonly used in plastic bottles.

And China’s import restrictions become even tighter March 1, increasing the sense of urgency U.S. recyclers feel to find new outlets for their products. At the same time, some industry officials say the situation could be a blessing in disguise if it eventually prods the U.S. toward processing more of its own recycling.

“What we’re seeing now is really unprecedented,” said Julie Miller, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

China has been by far the largest market for U.S scrap exports—in many cases the recyclable materials Americans put in curbside containers. China’s crackdown, now three months old, has both U.S. and global waste collectors scrambling to find new markets for their recyclables to avoid disrupting curbside collection services.
https://www.bna.com/us-recycling-woes-n57982089254/