After China’s refusal of recyclable materials import, Canadian cities are beginning to be drowned in garbage

Almaty. 10 January. Silkroadnews - After the refusal of China to import recyclables, Canadian cities are beginning to be buried in debris, the Canadian edition of The Globe and Mail reports.
"The Chinese ban on imports of most types of recyclables left the power of Canadian cities one on one with the deposits of used paper and plastic, most of which may eventually end up in a landfill. The ban also led to a reduction in the incomes of cities that they received for the sale of recyclable materials, competition for cooperation with companies that accept waste, has become particularly tough, "the report said.
China used to be the main importer of plastics and paper recyclable materials, but has now halted to accept almost all the overseas recycled materials, leaving Canadian cities with their garbage.
Despite the fact that the ban came into effect only on December 31, many Chinese companies stopped accepting foreign recyclables a few months ago.
Matt Keliher, Halifax’s manager of solid waste, said three quarters of the city’s recyclable materials had been sent to China earlier. He said the city had found new markets for solid plastics and paper, but polyethylene film was harder to sell. Three hundred tons of film, stored in a warehouse in Halifax since August, to go to the dump.
In the city of Calgary, which used to send all its paper waste and half of the plastic waste to China, 5000 tons of recyclables accumulated over the past few months and the city still has not solved the problem of these wastes utilization.
“While Canada has some domestic recycling companies, Christina Seidel, executive director of the Recycling Council of Alberta, said those are almost exclusively for the high-grade plastics like milk jugs and juice bottles”, the report reads.
Indonesia, Thailand and India are among the countries that still accept foreign recyclables, but the competition to become their supplier is extremely tough.
Derek Angowe, director of processing and resource management for solid waste management services in Toronto, said that recycled paper and plastic prices have already dropped and if China does not resume the import of waste, prices would continue to decline.