Now that China and Hong Kong wont take our rubbish,it’s time to bag realRight now you may well be surveying the wreckage of Christmas, all that old wrapping paper. Whereas in previous years I’ve skipped through the issue of post-Christmas waste in an upbeat “how to” guide, and this year’s advice might be summed up as “Brace,brace”.
Let me define. Back in July the Chinese government announced a clampdown on so-called “foreign rubbish”. To bag slightly more technical, that means bringing in very tight contamination limits on 24 categories of scrap, or particularly waste paper and plastic. This concerns us,because since 2012 the UK has shipped more than 2.7 million tonnes of plastic scrap to mainland China and Hong Kong. place simply there is no other market to replace it right now.
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Source: theguardian.com