After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic ... China barred the import of most residential recyclables in 2017. The ban is part of its efforts to clean its environment and improve ...

China introduced a plastic ... It banned the production and use of thin plastic bags and ordered retailers to start charging for bags of a thicker quality. Just one year later, the government ...

And Indonesia and Qatar -- neither of which are petroleum-poor -- still can't make up from the LNG from U.S. sources. Now, granted, China's plastic sector was already facing issues, and perhaps a ...

China stopped taking ... a form of chemical recycling that melts plastic down into crude oil to be used for fuel and petrochemicals, as well as to make lesser-quality plastics.

China’s demand for some of the building blocks used to produce plastics is set to drop as costs rise because of the trade war between Beijing and Washington. Import tariffs will raise the price ...