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contactanother··on China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere
You literally said you're Chinese, in one of the comment a month ago.
contactanother··on China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere
Pretty easy to be negative on China when all the news come out of there are: dictatorship, imprisonment millions in concentration camps and brainwashes them, builds artificial islands and claim ownership of seas not even close to their land, blatantly disregards WTO rules and closes off its market to others, hacks and steals other countries and their companies IP, threatens to attack a democratic Taiwan every day, censorship of their citizens, threatening censorship of other countries about China or its concentration camps, depletes fishing supplies in other countries, floods the ocean with plastics, props up dictatorships in other countries, etc etc etc.
contactanother··on China is no longer importing waste – 111M tons will have to go elsewhere
That's hilariously ironic because China is the biggest exporter of plastics.

1.) China: $17.9B (24.7% of exported plastic items)

2.) Germany $9B (12.4%)

http://www.worldstopexports.com/plastic-item-exports-country...

plastics are now drowning the ocean, choking fishes (which the Chinese fisherman has a habit of overfishing, even going out to other countries' sea to fish). not to mention coral diseases, as well as microfibers ingested by humans. And China just dump plastics into their rivers and out into the ocean. letting the other countries take care of them.

Also, interestingly, China's boom in the early 90s came from the fact that they lacked materials, and they had to take other countries waste in order to use the waste for materials for production. Now that China's boycotting waste, the other southeast asian countries are picking up the slack (and waste), and growing their own industrial capabilities. That's why now manufacturers usually have two or three different factories in different countries, lessening dependence on China, and ready to switch when they need to (like the impending $400 billion tariff on China)