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   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   CHINA THROWS THE RECYCLING SCAM IN THE TRASH   
      
   Now you get to do the work that China won't.   
      
   By Daniel Greenfield   
   Frontpage Mag, frontpagemag.com   
   Thursday, July 12, 2018   
      
        Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the   
   Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer   
   focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.   
      
   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.   
      
   California's trash is going right back to landfills. 62% of   
   exported materials used to go to China. But no more.   
   California's Department of Resources Recycling sent a   
   letter cautioning that the "economics of recycling" had   
   become "unfavorable" thus "challenging what recycling means   
   to Californians."   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270714/china-throws-recycling-s   
   am-trash-daniel-greenfield   
      
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   Om Shanti   
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