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China’s recycling revolution
When China tightened the rules on what kinds of waste imports it would accept, people throughout the Western world faced a shocking revelation: their recycling industry was based on shipping it all to China. This four-part series details what happened next. Listen/subscribe: iTunes ,Spotify ,Stitcher ,Google Podcasts ,Soundcloud
Updated: 08 Sep, 2020
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China's recycling revolution 01: How the National Sword policy caused global disruption
How China’s National Sword policy caused a global disruption to domestic recycling programmes, encouraged Southeast Asian nations to reject Western waste, and inspired a massive Chinese investment in American recycling facilities
30 Sep, 2019
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China's recycling revolution 02: Shanghai asks ‘What trash are you?’
Inside the new waste disposal system brought in for tens of millions of residents one of China’s biggest cities, and finding the truth in the hype over hi-tech trash cans, RFID chips and the social credit system
30 Sep, 2019
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China’s recycling revolution 03: Hong Kong and Taiwan - one trash can, two systems
One city used an old English folk song to create a culture of recycling and domestic waste separation, while the other finds itself on the wrong side of China’s National Sword policy
30 Sep, 2019
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China’s recycling revolution 04: confronting the global plastic crisis
A new modern phenomenon is causing a massive increase in single-use plastic packaging, overwhelming any positive effect of bans on plastic straws - but new technology might be able to join the dots between food disposal and food production
30 Sep, 2019
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