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May 11th, 2018 
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Europe: Plastic Trash Piling Up, China No Longer Wants It
May 11th, 2018
Via: Reuters:
Europe has sent just over half the plastic waste it used to ship to China to other parts of Asia since Beijing’s environmental crackdown closed the world’s biggest recycling market in January. The knotty problem is what to do with the rest.
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In an overcrowded continent where landfills are much more restricted than elsewhere, burning is the obvious option to help generate electricity or heat from hundreds of thousands of tonnes of surplus waste.
But more radical ideas, such as putting oil derived plastic back underground to “mine� back when recycling becomes more sophisticated, are being aired as Europe tries to work out what to do.
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