In 20177 months, China announced that it would stop importing 24 kinds of garbage such as discarded plastics, paper and scrap slag, and formally implement it from the 1st of 20181 months.
Sohu number of the road by comparing 2016-2018 of the data, found that China's sayno of foreign garbage to change the global pattern of waste disposal, Europe and the United States in many countries in the experience of ' panic, helpless ' after a series of sights on Southeast Asia.
Ban 1 plastic waste from the United States reduced by 90%
China's claim to refuse foreign rubbish is by no means a joke, and its attitude is determined to be startling. 2008-2017 of 10, China has been the largest importer of garbage in the United States, and in just 2017 1 quarters, China imports plastic waste from the United States to 224,200 (excluding plastic waste from Hong Kong transshipment to the mainland), 2018 quarter of 1, the data ' plunge ' to about 15,120,
Decreased by 93.3%. Hong Kong, China, has been an important transit point for the entry of foreign waste into the mainland, with 2017 of 1.867 million plastic waste transported to Hong Kong, a total of 6.635 million us, of which 5.407 million US plastic waste is transported to the mainland.
2017 in the 1 quarter, the United States shipped to Hong Kong plastic waste of 156,000, 2018 1 quarter of 30,200, down 80.7%.
Not only the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Thailand, Mexico, exports to China's plastic waste also encountered this ' cliff-style ' decline, Britain and Japan, respectively, the decline of 97.2% and 96.5%. China no longer accepts plastic waste from these countries as a ' storm ' that is reshaping the world's waste disposal landscape. Those countries that have easily dumped their rubbish in China have struggled to adapt, with "piles of garbage in the US", ' Australian investment in waste incineration plants ', ' the UK and the European Union have started to raise waste recovery ', and newspapers,
The Japanese company, which exports waste plastics, was unable to conduct business and filed for bankruptcy in 20183 months. China's plastic waste say no after the chain effect more than this, even Starbucks promised to 2020 in 28,000 stores around the world to stop using plastic straws, the EU proposed to ban disposable knives and forks, plates, straws and other plastic products, switch to more environmentally friendly materials,
It is proposed to increase the recovery rate of disposable plastic beverage bottles to 90% before 2025.
However, ' slowly ', although these countries have begun to develop long-term plastic waste disposal plan, but how to spend the immediate difficulties?
China rejects plastic waste after Southeast Asia takes emergency
In the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the 3 of the "big" export of plastic waste to China, for example, their response to the South-East Asia, no exception, is located in South Asia, India to this ' also contribute '.
Compared with the 20,161 quarter, the U.S. exports to Malaysia in the 20,171 quarter, Thailand's plastic waste is 31.6% and 4.2% respectively, while the 20,181 quarter, the U.S. exports to the two places of plastic waste 5.2 times times and 26.2 times times, the export of plastic waste to Vietnam 1 time times longer than the year. Britain and Japan have also turned their sights on Southeast Asia.
In the 20,181 quarter, Japan's plastic waste exported to Thailand was 14.8 times times longer than the previous year, and the UK and Japan exported plastic waste to Malaysia 2.8 times and 4.8 times times longer than the previous year. In addition, the UK has ' targeted ' Indonesia.
In the 20,181 quarter, the UK's plastic waste exported to Indonesia grew 54.2% from a year earlier, well above the 20,171-quarter-long 4.3%.
You know, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam in the past, is one of the leading countries to export waste to China, 2017 of the four countries exported to China's plastic waste accounted for China when the total import of plastic waste 14.3%, now they have taken the "Global waste disposal field" hat from China. China has been tough on rejecting foreign trash, and the impact is significant.