The United States has been in a bind since China stopped accepting our recycling for processing last year. It’s a little ironic, really, that we can’t handle our own waste. We’ve got big trucks for residential recycling pick up and automated sorting lines. But we have no facilities for actually, you know, recycling the material. For that we depend on China. Meanwhile, here is a photo of recycling pick up in Qingdao.
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