July 11, the Chinese government released a proposal to completely ban imports of recovered fiber and every other form of solid waste. This proposal is in addition to the previous July 2017 filing, where China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that they would no longer be accepting imports of mixed paper, post-consumer plastic (including difficult-to-recycle…
According to recycling leaders, who traveled to China in the hopes of obtaining clarification on China’s impending imports ban, China is unprepared to enact or enforce the waste policies that are set to roll out Jan. 1. President of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Robert Wiener and ISRI Chairman Mark Lewon met with…
In an alert sent to its members Nov. 16, ISRI says the Government of China notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of its intent to adopt the Environmental Protection Control Standards for Imported Solid Wastes as Raw Materials (GB 16487 .2-13), the standards that set the allowable contaminates thresholds for scrap imports. China proposed that…