China “Reconsiders” Foreign Waste- Is There Hope For Global Recycling Markets?
Since the 1960’s China created an appetite for recycling markets, which in turn, has been fed by the world’s largest economies. In an unprecedented move in early 2018, China decided to implement stringent new environmental policies, effectively banning the import of 24 grades of waste. These included unsorted mixed papers, post-consumer plastics, and a 0.5% contamination limit for other solid waste material. With China suddenly pulling the plug on waste imports, a mammoth problem has been created in global recycling markets.
SHOPPING CENTRE WASTE DATA TELLS THE COVID-19 STORY
The COVID pandemic has made an unprecedented global impact, but how has it impacted our shopping centres? We’ve extracted and analysed waste data from shopping centres across our UK portfolio to investigate how waste data reflected the situation. Read our findings.
