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  • Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste?

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    China Environment Forum  //  January 7, 2021  //  By Meg Hassey, Richard Liu & Clare Auld-Brokish
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    China’s 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country’s role as the recycling bin for the world’s post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China is consolidating and formalizing its domestic recycling industry, an expensive and daunting task.

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  • Nine Dragons Rule the Waters: Closing the Loop on China’s Water Pollution (Report Launch)

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    China Environment Forum  //  August 13, 2020  //  By Karen Mancl & Richard Liu
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    Overview of new InsightOut Issue by Daneille Neighbour.

    The Chinese government is fighting a war on pollution on multiple fronts to protect its air, water, and soil. Despite passage of the stringent Water Ten Plan in 2015, water quality still has not met anticipated targets in one-third of the country. But one Chinese pollution control success story was Beijing’s investments in municipal wastewater treatment plants in the run up to the 2008 Olympics. 

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  • Black Coal to White Trash

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    China Environment Forum  //  February 13, 2020  //  By Richard Liu
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    Coal has long been China’s “black gold,” supplying over half of the nation’s electricity. Yet as coal’s energy share decreases due to domestic action to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, a new coal industry is emerging. In China’s arid northwest, eight plants are pulverizing coal chunks and “cooking” coal powder into something more valuable than power—or maybe even gold. These coal conversion plants, soon numbering over 20, churn out chemicals to produce plastic.

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  • China’s Risky Gamble on Coal Conversion

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  January 9, 2020  //  By Richard Liu, Zhou Yang & Xinzhou Qian
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    At the September 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Climate Summit, the U.S. delegation, under the shadow of intended withdrawal from Paris, did not volunteer a speaker. Attention instead focused on China. As the world’s largest carbon emitter, China was poised to assert leadership on the climate crisis.  However, perhaps lacking the sibling rivalry pressure that brought the U.S. and China together in 2014 on a joint climate agreement, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi offered no new commitments: no carbon tax, no increased investment in renewables, and no announcement to set a more ambitious coal consumption cap.

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