China's enforcement of its upcoming ban on imported scrap plastics and other materials (effective January 1 2018), is shaping up to be confusing and chaotic. The Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI)-recycling industry trade group said in a statement that crucial details remain unclear about how President Xi Jinping's directive from earlier this year to ban imports of "foreign waste" will be enforced.ISRI said its senior leadership just returned from meetings in Beijing, and believes the agencies in charge of bringing Xi's directive into practice "are being told to do so as quickly as possible without the time and resources needed to get it right."
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