Waste Piles Up in San Jose as China Limits Recycling Imports
Paper and plastics tossed by U.S. consumers into their blue bins each week have been piling up or trucked to landfills and incinerators ever since China stopped accepting contaminated recyclables earlier this year. Now, municipalities like San Jose—and ultimately residents—are stuck with the tab. The City Council on Tuesday will discuss the impacts of China’s so-called “National Sword” policy, which banned the import of 24 types of recyclable materials and reduced the level o
