Without Chinese Buyers, Northwest Recycling Becomes Trash

OPB/EarthFix, Statesman Journal
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 6:49pm

Across the region, recyclers are facing the consequences of new restrictions on selling recovered paper and plastic to China.

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