“’Moment of reckoning’: US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports” is the title of a February 21, 2019 Guardian story which reports that “… Residents of cities like Chester, outside Philadelphia, fear a rise in pollution from incinerators after China’s recycling ban … The loss of this overseas dumping ground means that plastics, paper and glass set aside for recycling by Americans is being stuffed into domestic landfills or is simply burned in vast volumes … The dilemma with what to do with items earmarked for recycling is playing out across the US … There isn’t much of a domestic market for US recyclables …”
Story details have been posted on the Linkedin web site of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative