China’s abrupt decision to place stricter quality thresholds on a range of waste imports puts as much as 5 million teu at risk from becoming landfill.
Having given notice in July of last year, China has followed through on its pledge to turn away “foreign garbage” by adopting much stricter quality thresholds for a range of waste products (see Table 1). The new rules were implemented on 1 January and will become enforceable on 1 March.
