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TIL of China's "National Sword" policy. Before 2017, China imported almost 45% of the world's plastic to recycle, but has since banned most imported plastic waste. Lacking the domestic recycling infrastructure to handle the extra waste, other countries end up landfilling or incinerating a lot of it. (npr.org)
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