FT Rethink

    The west’s new recycling challenge

    Leslie Hook - FT Journalist

    Leslie Hook

    FT Journalist

     

    At the end of 2017, China banned virtually all materials for recycling. Before that, it took about 60 per cent of the plastic waste exported by G7 countries. That dropped to less than ten per cent in 2018.

    At the end of 2017, China banned virtually all materials for recycling. 

    As the FT’s Leslie Hook explains, finding new ways to deal with recyclables has suddenly become an enormous challenge.

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