“You can already see the impact if you walk round some of our members’ yards. “We have relied on exporting plastic recycling to China for 20 years and now people do not know what is going to happen. In 2016, it imported 7.3m tonnes of waste plastics from developed countries including the UK, the US and Japan. British companies alone have shipped more than 2.7m tonnes of plastic waste to China and Hong Kong since 2012 – two-thirds of the UK’s total waste plastic exports, according to data from Greenpeace released last month. But when asked recently about the impact of the China waste ban he said: “I don’t know what impact it will have.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2018 17:26 UTC