GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Plastic Pollution, Plastic Recycling, Circular Economy
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The chinese import ban & its impact on global plastic waste trade brooks (2018) Plastic enters waste stream immediately after use, contributing to cumulative 6. 3 bio mt of plastic waste generate worldwide. China has increasingly implemented more rigid waste import policies: 2013 temporary restriction on waste imports that require significantly less contamination: green fence campaign highlighted fragility of global dependence on a single importer. Goal: increase quality of plastic waste that china was receiving while also reducing illegal foreign smuggling & trading. If taken collectively eu-28 would be the top exporter: east asia & pacific (eap) countries are characterized as the leading exporters of plastic waste, however this is because of large flow of exports from hong kong to china. Excluding hkg, europe & central asia (eca) countries lead in exporting, followed by north america. 7 of top 10 countries importing plastic waste are hic, except for china (1st) & india (9th)
