Original article from the Huffington Post: “On Jan. 1, China made good on its promise to close its borders to several types of imported waste. By the next day, panic had already taken hold in countries across Europe and North America as trash began piling up by the ton, with no one having a clue […]
Green Fence Is Now National Sword

Everyone remembers The Green Fence – China pushed back on importing just about everything due to contamination problems and did not want to be the world’s dump for recycling leftovers. They feel this trend is back and have now initiated what is called National Sword (do not ask me how they came up with that […]
China’s GREEN FENCE – Affecting Exports and Ultimately US Recycling

China no longer wants to receive garbage from other countries. Inspectors are now operating under a new program, “Operation Green Fence,” and are reportedly inspecting nearly every container. Because inspections slow down port operations, shippers are now seeing rising demurrage costs as they pay ports to hold containers until they are inspected. Definitive assessments of […]