America has a recycling problem. Here's how to solve it.

[lordsummerisle]

Source: The Week

Last year, America's recycling system broke down.

Ostensibly, China did the breaking. For years, China was home base for most of the world's recycling, importing two-thirds of global plastic waste in 2016. Over the last 30 years, America and other countries have shipped more than 10 million metric tons of plastic to China. That came with plenty of social, economic, and environmental costs for China itself. So on the last day of 2017, the Chinese government issued new rules so restrictive that shipments of waste into China for recycling effectively came to a halt, meaning the U.S. had to deal with all its unwanted paper, plastic, and glass on its own.

https://theweek.com/articles/819488/america-recycling-problem-heres-how-solve

[Duppers]

1. Good ideas in the article.

Plastic bags...

I like the fact that while we lived in England, Sainsbury's charged for the bags they had to provide customers. We always brought our own.