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This article was originally published on China-U.S. Focus. In 2017, the Green Volunteer League of Chongqing, an environmental NGO, filed a suit

The recycling and waste management landscape is rapidly evolving as the world scrambles to adopt sustainable solutions to the plastic crisis.  With plastic production expected to triple in the coming decades, the plastic crisis will get worse before it gets better. As societal backlash continues,

COVENTRY — Some 1,300 pounds of plastic were collected during an event in Coventry this weekend, saving what would otherwise have wound up in the Central Landfill so that it

click to flip through (3) Shutterstock Bags and bags filled with recyclables were piling up in Kathy Hutchinson’s shed. She had been waiting for the Eureka Recycling Center to resume paying for California Refund Value bottles and cans after it closed in March due to COVID-19 restrictions, but the eagerly anticipated reopening was short lived. The center briefly resumed its CRV redemption services last September but an overwhelming dema...

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste? China’s 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country’s role as the recycling bin for the world’s post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China is consolidating and formalizing its domestic recycling industry, an expensive and dau...