https://www.scmp.com/rss/326139/feed Liu Hua is Greenpeace East Asia’s plastics campaigner. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com On New Year’s Day 2018, a new Chinese regulation banning the import of 24 different types of waste will come into force, sending shock waves through the ­global, multibillion-dollar waste disposal and ­recycling industry. Though the regulation is primarily designed to address major environmental and health issues in China, it will also be a genuine global disrupter. It has the potential to propel many waste-exporting countries – who for far too long have taken an “out of sight, out of mind”... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126098/24-reasons-why-chinas-ban-foreign-trash-wake-call-global?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126098/24-reasons-why-chinas-ban-foreign-trash-wake-call-global?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:32:39 +0000