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After China issued a ban on "foreign garbage" and India, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand successively issued restrictions on "foreign garbage", the global way of disposing of waste has undergone tremendous changes
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U.
S.
states are now seeking a more comprehensive and “domesticized” approach, opening up new markets for scrap recycling, improving processing infrastructure, and conducting environmental campaigns to raise public awareness to reduce pollution
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According to the Institute of Waste Recycling Industries (ISRI), as of October, U.
S.
plastic waste exports to mainland China were 89 percent lower than at the beginning of 2017, and waste paper exports were down 96 percent
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The U.
S.
is "under pressure" over waste disposal, but an EPA spokesperson acknowledged that "the reason the U.
S.
recycling system is facing challenges today is not that China and other countries have imposed import restrictions, but rather that they have exposed how we previously managed in the U.
S.
The issue of recycled materials
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At the same time, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and other countries have begun to re-examine the major issue of garbage recycling
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A report in the Wall Street Journal in September pointed out that this year, at least 10 states in the United States have passed or enacted multiple bills related to recycling management
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“When China stopped accepting millions of tons of scrap two years ago, China brought the U.
S.
recycling industry to its peak,” the article said
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California, which exports two-thirds of its recyclable waste abroad, has also set a goal to reduce, reuse or recycle 75 percent of the state's single-use plastics by 2030, create end markets and implement more uniform policies across cities.
recycling policy,
etc.
Massachusetts has given nearly $1 million in grants to 28 communities since 2017 to improve local recycling programs and launched a statewide education program last year
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The state's awareness campaign has reduced non-compliant recycling by 30 to 80 percent
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In the past, many Americans did not have the habit of sorting their waste, so different waste products had to be sorted with great effort before they could be disposed of.
Many papers were too damp, and plastics were covered with food and grease, and they could not be recycled at all
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In order to improve the situation, Philadelphia has also sent staff from house to house to tell residents how to sort garbage and put lids on the garbage cans to prevent paper from getting wet in the rain
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This summer, Philadelphia advertised at bus stops and radios asking people not to throw plastic bags into recyclables, "Take a minute (think) before you put your trash in the bin," "If When in doubt, don't throw it in
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This year, waste contractors in Flagstaff stopped accepting five types of plastic, including yogurt jars and clamshell food containers, because they couldn't be sold
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The city has also launched an appeal on social media, encouraging some 70,000 local residents to put only recyclable waste such as bottles, water bottles and cans in the recyclable bins
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Flagstaff also announced that workers will begin checking residents' recyclable trash cans, which will be labeled "Oops" if they contain misplaced trash, and will not be recycled
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The city's trial last year paid off, with labels reducing the amount of non-returnable waste in recycling bins by 40 percent
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Japan has also encountered waste disposal issues after China imposed bans and related restrictions in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam
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Recycling agencies in Japan have started hoarding waste, and Japan has accumulated 500,000 tons of plastic waste in the past year, said Hiroaki Kaneko, deputy director of recycling at the Ministry of the Environment
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Japan, the world's second-largest exporter of plastic waste after the United States, is now trying to encourage the development of its domestic waste disposal industry by allocating billions of yen to subsidize private companies' plastic recycling machines
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Kobe-based recycling company Daiei Kankyo recently applied for government subsidies and is expected to open a new plant to double the company's waste-processing capacity to about 30,000 tons a year
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Japanese plastic waste exporter Asei Co.
has moved the production of plastic pellets from its Shanghai factory to Japan, and the company has spent about 500 million yen to build two new plants in Tokyo
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In addition, Simon Ellin, chief executive of the British Recycling Association, said: "We are rapidly entering a crisis, we do not have the market capacity to absorb recycled material, and (recycled material) prices have plummeted
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The UK is burning more rubbish, including dirty or low-value recyclable waste
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According to UK government figures, the UK's waste incineration and recycling rate is currently roughly 42%
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In the past year, 10.
8 million tons of waste was incinerated in the UK, an increase from the previous year (10.
2 million tons); garbage recycling dropped from 11.
3 million tons to 10.
9 million tons
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Paper Round, a London-based waste paper contractor, has started asking customers to stop putting plastic film in the bins it collects recyclables
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Bill Swan, the company's managing director, said: "The Chinese ban shows that we can no longer export the 'problem' abroad"
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In July 2017, the General Office of the State Council of China issued the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Plan for Prohibiting the Entry of "Foreign Garbage" and Promoting the Reform of the Solid Waste Import Management System", and China classified 24 kinds of solid wastes in 4 categories such as waste plastics and waste paper.
Foreign garbage", adjusted and included in the "Catalogue of Prohibited Import of Solid Waste"
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On December 18 of the same year, China officially notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it would no longer accept foreign waste
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In a document submitted to the WTO, China stated that generally recyclable solid wastes are often mixed with a large number of highly polluting wastes and hazardous wastes, polluting China's environment.
In order to protect the environment and people's health, China must adjust Garbage import regulations, reject high-polluting solid waste
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Since January 1, 2018, China has officially implemented the ban on "foreign garbage", and it has been nearly two years since the ban was implemented
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