Today, some not-sogood news, but also a little somewhat good news. I’ll start with the non-so-good news. I saw on the news the other day that more and more of our cities are having a hard time justifying recycling. One of the biggest problems now is finding a profitable market for many of the recycled items.
When China, which took much of our recycled materials at a reasonable price, put restrictions on what they would take, it greatly reduced our exports of recycling items to them. Now, from a recent article in Resource Recycling newsletter, I expect the sale of recycled items to them will be reduced to almost zero.
“Chinese officials doubled down on plans to ban virtually all recovered material imports by the end of the year, despite opposition from U.S. interests.”
