{"id":32933,"date":"2020-12-08T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=32933"},"modified":"2020-12-13T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T10:25:48","slug":"china-tightens-recycling-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/chief-editors-choice\/china-tightens-recycling-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"China tightens recycling rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce has introduced a nationwide system for retailers to report their plastic consumption and will be established. It is part of a trial to help cut the 63 million tonnes of plastic consumed nationally in 2019 and to boost a recycling rate of around 30%. Single-use plastic bags and eating utensils will be banned from major cities by the end of the year while single-use straws will be banned nationwide. This follows a five-year strategy announced in January this year to deal with the waste created by its 1.4 billion population. China produces around 20 million tonnes of single-use non-biodegradable material annually.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official document published at the end of November, China will \u2018progressively ban or restrict the production, sales and use\u2019 of certain plastics while endorsing \u2018degradable, recycle-friendly alternatives\u2019. From September, China has also prohibited some types of agricultural plastic film and a new \u2018solid waste\u2019 law\u2019 brought increased fines for non-observance of recycling rules and requires the construction of new recycling infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Wang, chairman of the China Scrap Plastic Association, quoted by Reuters, said the bans would resolve only \u2018the most visible types of plastic pollution\u2019 and were just a part of the country\u2019s efforts to tackle waste. The business impact of the measures would be limited with firms aware in advance that some products would be banned, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/recyclinginternational.com\/business\/china-tightens-recycling-rules\/32187\/\">Recycling International<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce has introduced a nationwide system for retailers to report their plastic consumption and will be established. It is part of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,77],"tags":[179,9612,339,398],"class_list":["post-32933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-weeks-highlights","tag-china","tag-plastic-consumption","tag-politics","tag-recycling","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/china-1031557_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C97&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33038,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32933\/revisions\/33038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}