Final Blog - China and The World Recycling Issue

Brooks Farish
5/16/19

I chose to read the article on China and the world recycling issue. This article covers the National Sword policy passed in China which made them start to reject all plastics sent to them from all over the world. This policy was passed an a attempt to deal with the environmental issues they face. Now China’s plastic imports have gone down by 99 percent. Before this policy was passed China was handling 95 percent of the recycling plastics from the European Union and 70 percent from the United States. At the time it was a win-win because we had the recycle and China wanted the materials. But now that China has put this policy in place everyone is panicking. This “panic” has to lead to some good changes though. Now everyone is starting to do thing such as put fees into place for using non envoirmentaly friendly materials such as plastic. In the end, China passing this policy has lead to some good changes.
    From my perspective, China is a massive entity that for the longest time has been correlated with all mass production of everyday goods which highly include materials such as plastics. With all the many things that they produce it just made sense for China to want to take some of the recycle and materials for others. But, In the last couple years, China has really been starting to see the impact that all this production has had on their country with all the many health hazards such as air pollution and other environmental issues brought about. I personally commend China for finally taking a step in the right direction and getting a hand on this large issue that they are facing. Though this is an issue that not only China is facing much of the whole world. It is now time that we really cut down on plastic use. On a final note, I feel that this news is mostly good because of the change that it is bringing about with better recycling efforts within the exporting countries, environmental levies for using plastic and rewards for heading in the right direction with eco-friendly materials.

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