China's environment ministry to 'encourage' more recycling

Intrinsically connected to the ban on imported paper, cardboard and plastic scrap products in China, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is set to roll out new recycling facilities across a swathe of second-tier cities to encourage more domestic recycling. It claimed these volumes would replace those that come from abroad – though what happens to those mounting piles of scrap elsewhere in the world remains a fundamental question for shipping and scrap recycling forwarders this year.