Zombies Agree!
"Not only we depend on Chinese labor for the imports but we also
depend on them to clean up our mess. Being green is getting a lot harder
for eco-friendly states in the U.S., thanks to the country's dependency
on overrun Chinese recycling facilities since the start of China's Green Fence policy
this year. Recycling centers in Oregon and Washington recently stopped
accepting clear plastic "clamshell" containers used for berries, plastic
hospital gowns and plastic bags, while California's farmers are
grappling with what to do with the 50,000 to 75,000 tons of plastic they
use each year. The Green Fence initiative bans bales of plastic that
haven't been cleaned or thoroughly sorted. That type of recyclable
material, which costs more to recycle, often it ends up in China's
landfills, which have become a source of recent unrest in the country's
south. For every ton of reusable plastic, China has received many more
tons of random trash, some of it toxic. That has helped build 'trash
mountains' so high they sometimes bury people alive. For a country
facing environmental crisis after environmental crisis, it is no longer
tenable to accept US waste exports."
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