How China Broke the World's Recycling
- Episode aired Dec 16, 2020
- 20m
Many materials recycle fairly easily such as metals, glass and paper. Plastics are another matter. There are a multiple varieties and they are difficult to separate. A few types of plastic a... Read allMany materials recycle fairly easily such as metals, glass and paper. Plastics are another matter. There are a multiple varieties and they are difficult to separate. A few types of plastic are fairly easy to recycle but others require careful manual sorting. That's where China ca... Read allMany materials recycle fairly easily such as metals, glass and paper. Plastics are another matter. There are a multiple varieties and they are difficult to separate. A few types of plastic are fairly easy to recycle but others require careful manual sorting. That's where China came in. For a time China provided the many, many low wage jobs to do this work. But economi... Read all