China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
In 2017, China banned all plastic from entering the country. This single decision has disrupted the entire global flow of recycling. Stuff that once found its way to China is now ending up in Vietnam, Thailand, and most of all, Malaysia.
But those countries can’t process the amount of plastic China used to, and waste from the US, Europe, Japan, and beyond is piling up in small mountains.
China’s ban didn’t break the system, but it revealed just how broken it really is. In episode one of our video series Because China, we go to Malaysia, Shanghai, and New Jersey to figure out what is going on in the wild world of recycling.
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i love how this video make it sound like its china's fault, when in the beginning they said it comes from western countries 💁
So, China is doing what the US and the rest of the first-world-country had already done, it’s the same process as you progress. Yet instead of searching for a better solution for the human race, you’d rather spend your time and energy on the blame game...what good could this video do besides deepening the already-exist-bias against China? And what good could biases do?
Man up, take responsibility, ban landfill, clean up your act. Sweden puts about 0.5% of waste into landfill, 99.5% is recycled in one way or another.
‘Because China’ ...you got to be kidding me.
Seems the audience understands the origin of the problem.
Sigh, people are already calling this a blame game when in fact all this video does is show us all that the entire recycling chain isn't working.
Burning plastic smells horrible; and the smell can carry for miles. Not cool.
Colonial mentality at its best
Nothing but a proof that we're all hypocrites.
The ironic thing is that the inhaler she opened is definitely not recycle able either and has to go get buried or burned. She might as well go toss it on the fire with the other trash. There is no escaping plastic waste.
He translate 洋垃圾 (literally means western trash) into trash operations. Good job in missing out the important part of the words from the victims
When the lady said "Foreign Waste" in Mandarin.. She was using the word "洋垃圾".. Which kinda translates to "Western trash". She's not blaming China.
Its amazing how people can blame china for this lmao
It's extremely harmful to do it here but it's okay do it China? lol
When you say 'because China' it sounds like you're blaming China for the mess.
Is this video trying to imply that China should allow plastic import again because "some southeast countries are suffering and we developed countries now have difficulty dealing with these garbage" ??
We in the west seem to think we are better than other countries. We want everything to be out of sight and out of mind, with absolutely no thought to where it goes after we throw it out in recycling boxes.
But the real question is WHY IS THE HOST'S CHINESE HAVE MALAYSIAN ACCENT
Ok so apparently you’re blaming China for too much of YOUR own rubbish? Ok makes sense
OMG blame everything to china