Telegraph: Despite putting pressure on households to recycle more, successive governments have failed to ensure more materials are processed at home. As a consequence, around 70 per cent of plastics for recycling is sent to the Far East. However, with a growing middle class of its own producing waste, China is no longer willing to accept the low-grade plastic sent from the UK, which has been "contaminated' by other materials. So far this year 17 containers, containing 420 tons of plastic, have been turned...
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