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This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am here in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan, and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing government, is about to stop most of that, and it could have a Significant Impact on recycling industry wo...

Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 9am in beijing, where chinas government has introduced new restrictions on the import of foreign waste, much of it dirty or hazardous. The country has been importing large amounts of waste plastic and paper every year from europe, japan and the United States to be recycled. Its estimated that china accepted 51 of global plastic scrap imports in 2016. But the new ban, ordered by the beijing government, is about to stop most of that, and it could have a Significant Impact on recycling industry worldwide. Robin brant reports from shanghai. Ch...

Imports of a range of waste materials in 2018. 2a different substances have been outlawed, as china tries to tackle environment damage caused by hazardous waste. Each year, the world uses more than 800 Million Metric Tons of scrap commodities to make new stuff. And china is the biggest importer of that. In 2016, the country took in 27 of global scrap imports. Plastic is one of the most environmentally damaging materials, yet plastic production is expected to grow by 40 over the next decade. Chinas clampdown will have a major impact on recycling around the world, as Danny Vincent reports from h...

Im going to call the meeting to order. The subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, we are going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committee, but primary reason being the issues that we deal with are of sufficient magnitude generally dealt with by the whole committee. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or viceversa, dpeending how you look at it. But in any event, we really deem that this was appropriate s...

Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise from sleep activities of the day stir the mind, having a job to fulfill sets us into routine as a pe...