Wednesday, October 6, 2010

America's Trash, China's Treasure

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25351410#25351410

America's biggest export to China is.. scrap paper. In 2002, scrap to China was $1.2 billion and in 2006 in was $6.1 billion. All of the scrap is needed in China to meet their economic needs because of their huge population. A bail of aluminum cans is worth about a thousand dollars, double what it used to be, plastic bottles have tripled in price and paper has quadroupled. You use less energy, less water and produce less waste when making cans out of recycled cans and plastic out of recycled plasic so what China is doing with our trash is very helpful to their environment.

3 comments:

  1. This is really ironic if you ask me. China makes the majority of the items that we use everyday, and then we ship them back the scraps of trash that we don't want. And I'm assuming they then use that trash to make more goods that are in turn; shipped right back to America.

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  2. That is really weird. I never knew that. Although agreeing with levi that is really smart because most of our products are made in China which is a lot of products. So if we are sending them back it could really help our enviroment.

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  3. This article is very ironic, as stated by Levi. But it is a very smart, and genuine idea from China to use our paper scraps to recycle. But how much natural resources are we using to ship them our paper scraps? That is the question I had, and is it even worth it at the end?

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