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Will The US Become An Ocean Dumping Nation into 2020?

Trump has recently pulled back regulations on coal emissions. Guess what else is in store for you America? You get increased coal emissions AND increased air pollution from waste incineration all within the same term. Not to mention the amount of waste that the US creates could lead you to ALSO become an ocean dumping nation just like China in as little as one year.

Even if you know nothing about waste management in the US — the only thing we really have to keep our landfills under control is recycling. Recycling was invented to reduce landfills. Bravo!

Now, recycling is currently crashing at record speeds due to cataclysmic market changes.

Here is an example from the Washington Post’s “American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why”

Guy who owns 50 recycling plants states:

1 in 10 curently in the red at -$16M for Q1 2018.

In 12 months the rest will go dark…

When recycling dies this means more waste in landfills.

What’s next?

Managing landfills right now means waste incineration.

Waste incineration is equal to the emissions of burning coal…if not worse.

And just to let you know, even with recycling merely half in the can, we already technically contribute to ocean pollution by virtue of mismanaged plastic waste landfills…

If you know one of the main reasons recycling has no market anymore for the US, the EU, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand is because our waste exports are too dirty. Containing too many items that were too dirty or the wrong item.

Why is that?

It’s because there are NO RULES that say your recycling exports have to be clean to any specific level by our governments. There were no HARD standards until China made them this January 2018.

So, in turn, instead of the majority of this poor quality recycling and or waste stuck inside of recycling landing in our landfills it landed in Chinas. Our collective imports to China added almost 13% to China’s already unruly landfills. This increased waste incineration on their end.

Their people were so irate about this that they started protesting and launching anti-foreign waste campaigns left and right. Then a film called Plastic China went viral and the President of Beijing up for re-election saw it. This film was immediately banned by him and it also caused him to flip the final switch to turn off imports of contaminated recycling that didn’t meet a .5% contamination rate or lower.

Not to mention China is currently in a healthcare crisis because of not recycling their own waste and waste burning or incineration.

In China, 1200 people die per day due to waste burning (incineration) related cancer. Or roughly 438,000 deaths per year.

Who’s going to make your Nike’s and work in sweatshops if the population is dying at this rampant rate?

China might have a population of 1.36B — but if you’re losing almost a million every two years from waste burning ALONE.

So in light of those two reasons, China has opted to ban foreign waste imports that were not clean enough and focus on supplying their recycling plants with recycling they collect from their own people. Don’t forget China didn’t do that before. Neither does China currently pick-up more than 40% of their own people’s waste to begin with.

How about us exporters? In fact, the US and many European nations are facing nowhere to go with their recycling. Their process for collecting and sorting this waste does NOT work to meet the standards of an increasing number of nations starting with China and Malaysia.

So, what does this mean to the US?

Are we becoming China overnight?

Even if we collect recycling where is it going to get processed?

All the recycling plants are in Asian and SE Asian countries.

Even if Bill Gates bought us enough recycling plants — how would we process all of our recycling waste that is too dirty?

Our current process does not deliver waste that makes economic sense. It didn’t even really cut it when we were using Asian and SE Asian markets to sort it for us and let the rest leak into the oceans…

So, since the direction seems to continue to be a matter of encouraging recycling bin size and there is the newest campaign “Recycling Done Right.” It doesn’t seem that China’s message has hit home — recycling is broken right now.

So, if we don’t have recycling… are we becoming exactly like China — with zero reform on packaging or plastics?

Are we going to put all our recycling into landfill?

Let landfills overflow?

Increase waste incineration?

Experience the health damages?

Increase cancer rates? For example, it is predicted that in 2018 609,640 people will die from the disease in the US. That is cumulativley.

In China, cancer caused by waste incineration make up 3/4ths the total deaths of cumulative cancers in the US.

Think about it, if you were China (which its looking like you are definitely headed there with the rolling back of regulations on emissions) would you opt to ocean dump?

Is it time that you get yourself informed on WHAT exactly is happening to your recycling right now? Where does it go? What do they do with it once it gets there?

Because right now, since we can’t meet China’s new contamination standards we are already forced to sell the stuff to other markets.

As we speak Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the rest of the markets are taking in 5X-10X how much they used to take in from the rest of the world.

And you know what’s happening in these nations?

Their people are opening illegal recycling centers hidden inside of their villages etc. In Malaysia, they shut down 114 illegal plants in July. And guess where the majority of that waste is coming from?

Malaysia has become the top destination for plastic waste exporters such as the United States and Britain, having received nearly half a million tons from its top 10 source countries between January and July.

In light of this situation, Malaysia is shutting the door on ALL foreign waste as of October 30th 2018. Yep, three days ago.

They have enough waste on their hands with not enough resources to process it for the rest of the year by shutting down 114 centers, right?

So what does this tell you — is there a place for the world’s recycling?

There is nowhere to go with this stuff folks. Never say never, but we cannot continue on this path. We MUST find the errors in our curbside recycling systems and make changes. And don’t forget while all those changes will take forever to transpire (if at all) — meanwhile the world’s current plastic production rate is…

Call your recycling centers, aldermans, mayors, governors, Senators, Representatives…. call Kanye West — the Kardashians. Do what you need to do to ring the alarm bells…. we have a crisis on our hands.

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