1. China has faced increasing amounts of undesirable materials in recycling that ends up in land fill. 2. On August 10, 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Commerce and three other ministries jointly issued the announcement regarding updated Administrative Catalogue of Waste Importation (2017) which has become effective from December 31, 2017. This Catalogue added 24 types of solid waste listed under categories to the import ban list, including 8 types of waste plastic from living sources, unsorted waste paper, 11 types of waste raw materials of textile and 4 types of vanadium slag 3. Mills' interpretation is that they need to use more of local recovered paper than imports.
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