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UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com)
The UK's recycling industry says it doesn't know how to cope with a Chinese ban on imports of plastic waste. From a report: Britain has been shipping up to 500,000 tonnes of plastic for recycling in China every year, but now the trade has been stopped. At the moment the UK cannot deal with much of that waste, says the UK Recycling Association. Its chief executive, Simon Ellin, told the BBC he had no idea how the problem would be solved in the short term. "It's a huge blow for us... a game-changer for our industry," he said. "We've relied on China so long for our waste... 55% of paper, 25% plus of plastics. "We simply don't have the markets in the UK. It's going to mean big changes in our industry." China has introduced the ban from this month on "foreign garbage" as part of a move to upgrade its industries.
Just send it to Sweden.
We get all the other shit so why not your plastic too?
Kinda fun how they say we're kinda leading in exporting jihadists per capita. I'm sure the cowardliness of Swedish politicians and openness for all sorts of trash and lying flat for Islam and poor assimilation and too many immigrants is part of it but of course the other part of it is that we IMPORT so damn many of them from the beginning. But yeah, we also let them grow and flourish to their full shitty potential.