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Will China's crackdown on 'foreign garbage' force wealthy countries to recycle more of their own waste?

  • Written by Kate O'Neill, Associate Professor, Global Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley
imageImported laptop housings, Guiyu, China.Basel Action Network, CC BY-ND

With holidays approaching, many of us are mindful of the need to collect and recycle all the additional plastic, paper and other waste that we are about to generate. This year, however, there are questions about where that waste will end up. China, the world’s largest...

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