Calls for the recycling industry in Hong Kong to upgrade after Beijing set to ban 24 types of imported waste by the end of the year
In a dusty scrap yard encircled by mountains of scrap plastic, 11-year-old Yi-Jie dips her hairbrush in a tank of water clumpy with bits of polymer and runs it through her hair. Later she is seen with another woman, scooping plastic with their bare hands into an industrial shredder.
It was Wang Jiujiang’s gripping 2016 documentary, exposing the squalid, unsanitary conditions of sub standard recycling yards oft manned by impoverished families, that caught the public and central government’s attention.
Paper jam in Hong Kong as mainland China tightens requirements on waste imports
After years of trying to clamp down on the trade with tweaks in import regulations, Plastic China may have been the last straw.
“The problem of foreign garbage,” Guo Jian, head of international cooperation at the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection told reporters in July, “is loathed by everyone in China.”
Source:http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2110238/shift-mainland-policy-could-spell-disaster-hong
