The Chinese Banned Our Recyclables: What Happened Next

Paper exports will only fall dramatically when those same companies start reshoring manufacturing. Because of the ban, recycled plastic exports plummeted from 3.68 billion pounds in 2017 to 1.21 billion pounds in 2021. Plans were also underway to build at least one new mill using curbside paper. Sin...

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Published inWaste360
Main Author Miller, Chaz
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Informa 18.07.2022
Subjects
Bans
Exports
Imports
Manufacturing
Mills
Plastics
Prices
Pulp
Recycled materials
Recycling
China
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Summary:Paper exports will only fall dramatically when those same companies start reshoring manufacturing. Because of the ban, recycled plastic exports plummeted from 3.68 billion pounds in 2017 to 1.21 billion pounds in 2021. Plans were also underway to build at least one new mill using curbside paper. Since the ban, these capacity increases have been even more dramatic with as much as 8 million new tons of capacity coming online as a result New plastic recycled content capacity has also been announced and built. Some of that pulp is made in American mills, some in Southeast Asian mills that rely on imports. Because those two sources are limited in size, China has been forced to increase its use of virgin fiber pulp, whether it is made in China or imported.
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ISSN:2329-6984