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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 12 > China’s sagging recycling market

China’s sagging recycling market

‘People in this industry were once making a killing taking waste from overseas,’ says one recycling expert in China, ‘but the era of huge profits is now over.’

By Dan Levin / The Bulletin
March 12, 2009

BEIJING — China’s multibillion-dollar recycling industry has gone into a nosedive because of the global economic crisis and a subsequent fall in commodity prices.

The collapse has affected the middlemen who buy the waste products and the factories that refashion the....

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