Earlier this year, China stopped taking much of the world’s recyclable plastic waste. Now a new study suggests that by the year 2030, an estimated 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will be “displaced” as a result of the policy.
111 million tonnes of plastic waste will have nowhere to go by 2030 due to Chinese import ban: study | CBC News
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