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Topic Reading-Vol.2579-5/4/2019
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
China’s recycling ban has sent America’s plastic to Malaysia. Now they don’t want it — so what next?
Even if everyone is environmentally conscious enough to properly sort and dump plastic waste into recycling bins, the collected wasted needs to be properly recycled by someone somewhere on the globe. Then how much of the used plastic is collected, how much of the collected plastic is recycled domestically, and how much of the exported plastic is illegally processed or dumped? Your environmentally conscious act to your place might be causing environmental nightmare somewhere else.
Especially since January 2018 when China stopped importing plastic waste, much of the exported plastic waste from developed countries like the US started to land in other developing Asian countries like Vietnam, Thailand, and India. Then these countries took tougher actions to restrict such plastic import from foreign countries. This ripple effect turned Malaysia into a final destination of some of the plastic waste from the US. If the imported plastic waste reaches to a properly managed and operated recycler, it will be fed into a series of machines to be washed, crushed and sliced into small flakes, and then melted and processed to become small pellets that are sold to plastic users. But not all the imported plastic waste ends up such desirable reincarnation.
Enjoy reading the article and seeing the video to learn about what happens to plastic waste once collected.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/26/asia/malaysia-plastic-recycle-intl/index.html
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