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A Recycling Reckoning: How Operation National Sword catalyzed a transition in the U.S. plastics recycling system

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Bans, Corporate Accountability, Health, Illegal Waste Trade, Lifecycle, Plastic Industry, Plastic Policy, Plastic Pollution, Policy, Pollutants, Single-Use Plastic, Waste, Waste Trade

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Activists, NGO Professionals, Policy Makers, Researchers, Students, Teachers

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Peer-reviewed research

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Environmental policy specialists evaluate the effects of China’s Operation National Sword on the U.S. plastics recycling system. The far-reaching effects of this national policy have effected programs and the global economy, and appear to have set forth a major shift in the plastics recycling system.

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