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China Throws the Recycling Scam in the Trash Now you get to do the work that China won’t.
The huge dirty secret of recycling was also one of the world’s worst polluters.
Every branch of government from Washington D.C. to your local town council had spent a fortune convincing people that recycling is a magical process that turns your old pizza boxes into new pizza boxes while creating those imaginary “green jobs” in the community. The reality was a lot dirtier.
All of America’s industries, including trash sorting, had been outsourced to China.
And recycling is just a fancy lefty way of saying "trash."
All that recycling, which children in progressive communities are taught to sort as the closest thing to a religious ritual, was really being dumped by the ton on dirty ships and sent over to China.
We weren’t recycling it. The Chinese were.
But now China is banning foreign recycling because it’s bad for the environment.
Even the Communists got tired of sorting through the trash of American socialists.
The recycling scam shipped garbage on dirty ships for dirty industries while pretending that they’re clean and green.
There was never anything clean about it. And only the money it brought in was green.
Now the recycling party’s over.
Plastic recycling imports were banned early this year. Even fiber has trouble getting in to the People’s Republic. China’s mixed paper standards mean that most of the recycled cardboard and paper no longer passes muster. Instead it’s piling up in the United States.
The recycling scam used to be an easy trade. China shipped its cheap products made from recycled American junk and scrap here. The empty vessels used to dump Chinese junk products on America were then filled up with tons of recycling for the return trip back to China at minimal cost.
We sent them junk, they sent us junk. As the trade deficit grew, recycling was one of its many parasites.
But China is out of the recycling dump business. And the recycling business depended on it.
No other market pays what it did. And no other country has the industrial scale to handle this much recycled trash.
The American market is flooded with recycling that no one wants and trash prices have imploded.
And that’s having an immediate impact on the progressive recycling programs in the United States.
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