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US demands China reconsider ‘catastrophic’ ban on importing foreign garbage & recyclables
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Amid fears of a potentially devastating trade war between the US and China, Washington has urged Beijing not to implement the ban on US garbage and recyclable materials that Asia’s giant threatened to impose last July.
In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24 types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper, recycled steel and newsprint. Despite the threat to implement the ban by the end of the year, the document stated that the “proposed date of adoption” is “to be determined.”
Concerned over the massive impact the ban could have on the US economy, on Friday the US trade representative urged China to re-examine its decision.
https://www.rt.com/news/422255-us-china-garbage-recyclables-import/
Surely there must be other places to dump it ?
The UK ? ' Israel ' ? Canada ? Czech Republic ? Marshall Islands ? Palua ?
