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Recycling from Western Countries Covers China in Filthy Garbage
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 22, 2014 @ 10:23 am In The Point | 9 Comments
Recycling is a scam. I’ve said it before. It does nothing for the environment. It does plenty for the wallets of the well connected who have recycling businesses. That’s the only reason for recycling.
Western countries dump their “recycling” into Third World countries in heaps indistinguishable from the old bad landfills. Except the difference is that they’re in major cities.
These filthy photographs show monstrous mounting piles of waste overflowing into streets and even blocking roads in the city of Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong Province.
The smell is so bad nauseous residents have taken to wearing masks.
Tonnes of plastic recycling being sent from Britain and other European countries is being blamed for the backlog, as tough EU laws have forced local authorities and businesses on the continent to recycle more.
One local Sun Fu, 33, said: “We have been forced to wear masks to deal with the smell, and sometimes roads can be blocked as the rubbish heaps topple over when they get too high. Something has to be done about this.”
Don’t recycle. It’s bad for people. It’s bad for the environment.
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