"Morning Papers"The Rooster
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China, along with other countries, are already sending space junk into orbit in the way of satellites, etc.
I strongly suggest China assess the amount of plastic waste that belongs to it and what percentage belongs to other countries.
China should not incinerate any of the plastic trashed dumped within it's country, it should compact the darn stuff, put as much as can in a rocket and launch toward the sun. The rest will take care of itself. If China cannot accept full responsibility to send the plastic trash into the sun, then bill the countries that advantage of China when it naively welcomed foreign plastic trash into the country.
June 20, 2018
By Shoshana Wodinsky
China’s recent crackdown (click here) on the import of plastic waste will result in millions of tons of displaced plastic trash, according to new research. The ban will force countries like the US to find new ways to deal with their own trash.
On December 31st, 2017, China put a halt to a lot of the plastic waste that foreign countries like the US sent to its shores for disposal. To calculate the impact of that ban, researchers at the University of Georgia looked at how much plastic waste China imported from 1988 to 2016. They then used that information to calculate that by 2030, the ban might leave 111 million metric tons of plastic trash with nowhere to go, according to a study published today in Science Advances.
Since 1988, nearly half of the planet’s plastic trash — like single-use soda bottles, food wrappers, and plastic bags — has been sent to China, where the material is recycled to make more plastic goods. The 2017 ban, however, has left countries like the US scrambling for what to do with all the extra plastic waste. In the US, a lot of it is already piling up in landfills, according to The New York Times. Today’s study is the first one to tally what the consequences of China’s trash ban will be. It also highlights the need for countries that have traditionally exported their plastic waste to rethink how they dispose of it....
