‘Waste Wars’: A Conflict With No End in Sight

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By Craig ThompsonApr 10, 2025, 2:25 pm168 pts
In 2018, China made global headlines when it banned the importation of foreign plastic and electronic waste. This fleeting news item exposed one of the dirty secrets of the Western world’s trash – that much of our garbage is, in reality, shipped elsewhere, many times under the shield of “recycling,” a…

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