Recycling and Globaliation (China, USA)

America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, ... (2021)

Scientific American, 2017: "The impact of this will be far-reaching because China is the dominant market for recycled plastic. The following essa... (2017)

The U.S. ships a big chunk of its recycled goods to China. But China doesn't want them anymore, and that's leaving the recycling industry in turmoil. (2017)

Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.” (2018)

Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem. (2018)

Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew... (2020)