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0 pointscrazygringo5y ago0 comments

Huh? Recycling appears to be alive and well in New York City at least. It's even all processed locally, next door in New Jersey.

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brianwawok5y ago

What percentage of plastic actually gets recycled since China stopped accepted our trash?

crazygringoOP5y ago

As far as I know, all of it. NYC never sent anything to China in the first place. It's all recycled locally by Sims, as it has been long before anything China did in the past few years:

https://www.simsmunicipal.com/

They have a long-term (and exclusive, I believe) contract with the city.

rrdharan5y ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.ht...

You’re right though, NYC is less affected by the change in Chinese policy..

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