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by brianwawok 2090 days ago
What percentage of plastic actually gets recycled since China stopped accepted our trash?
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crazygringo 2090 days ago
As far as I know, all of it. NYC never sent anything to China in the first place. It's all recycled locally by Sims, as it has been long before anything China did in the past few years:

https://www.simsmunicipal.com/

They have a long-term (and exclusive, I believe) contract with the city.

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rrdharan 2089 days ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.ht...

You’re right though, NYC is less affected by the change in Chinese policy..

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