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Report: China Seizes Illegal Trash Imports, Plans to Stop Accepting Solid Waste by End of 2019

Chinese Customs seized more than 300,000 tons of smuggled imported trash in a scheme that involved at least 115 suspects and 22 smuggling groups, according to a report by state-run news agency Xinhua. China imports solid waste as a source…

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of raw materials, the report said, but will “phase out and completely halt such imports” by the end of 2019 “except for those containing resources that are not substitutable.”