The Impact of the Plastic Ban in China Literature & Language Essay (Essay Sample)

THE IMPACT OF PLASTIC BAN BY CHINA TO JAPAN
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Introduction
In January of 2018, China made a pronouncement that would have an effect globally. The country had made a decision to halt its entire works on recycling programs which was the industry’s biggest market in the world (Brooks,Wang & Jambeck 2018). The ban had a far reaching impact universally especially on plastic manufacturing and how to dealwith the solid waste.(Wang et.al 2019).
The Impact
Before the year 2018, Japan was exporting 1.5 million tons of plastics of which 60-70 % was being exported to China. After the ban, Japan exported only 50,000 tons of plastics to China in 2018 but in earlier years, that was the amount that was exported to China each month. In the year 2019, the amount even reduced further to approximately to 1000 and 2000 tons per month (Nippon 2019).
Due to this ban, the Environment Ministry of Japan ordered the metropolises to take and dispose of industrial plastic waste as an emergency responsive step since the quantity of such was had been increasing since China banned imports.