DESPITE the pleas, the warnings, the threats over the years, nothing really worked until China suddenly decided it wasn’t taking any more crap from the West.
For years, it had imported the bulk of plastic waste from countries like the United States and Australia and from Europe, and recycled it into pellets for manufacturing.
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