Malaysia doesn’t want to be the world’s plastic dumping grounds anymore

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By Leta DickinsonMay 28, 2019, 5:39 pm245 pts
In early 2018, China, a long-time receiver and processor of foreign recyclables, stopped accepting most plastic shipments from other countries. The country adopted a policy called National Sword, which enforced a strict contamination rate of 0.5 percent. (For reference, U.S. recyclables can have up to 25…

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