What China's New Plastic Waste Import Ban Means for the World (5 of 10) (IMAGE)

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What China's New Plastic Waste Import Ban Means for the World (5 of 10)

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Displaced plastic waste in 2030. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 20 June 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.L. Brooks at University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., and colleagues was titled, "The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic waste trade."

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