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Re: Sustainable Packaging for reeds

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2020-09-01 21:20

My understanding is that China for some years took in the majority of the world's plastic waste, and they actually recycled it into other products. A couple years ago they stopped doing that, in part because the level of impurities (electronics etc.) in the material sent by the US and other countries made its use too expensive. Maybe the trade war was coincidental.

What I'm told is happening now, in my area (Vermont) and most of the United States, is plastic that's disposed of "properly" is being landfilled. Packaging producers have no interest in spending more on recycled plastic, and for whatever reasons new petroleum-based materials are preferred. Industry seems intent on transferring any disposal and other environmental costs to end users of various products - who had little to no say in choosing packaging material.

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