Why are paper recycling prices at near-record levels? The answer boils down to uncertainties in the Chinese market and strong demand at home.
Why are paper recycling prices at near-record levels? The answer boils down to uncertainties in the Chinese market and strong demand at home.
Clarissa Morawski
Single-use packaging is easy to spot. A short walk along a beach, anywhere in the world, will reveal the consequences of our throwaway culture as each tide brings in a fresh layer of debris, most of it single-use plastics.
A woman is fined for trying to recycle cardboard, and a beer company creates sand from used bottles.
Due to a combination of longtime flouting of contamination levels in paper bales being sold and shipped to Chinese consumers and internal economic and political pressures in the country, those same bales are increasingly being rejected by Chinese customs inspectors.