P.E.I. plastic bag recycling troubles disappear with ban | CBC News
When
China stopped taking overseas recyclables in the fall of 2017, IWMC
started stockpiling the bags, and then burning them in Charlottetown’s
energy-from-waste plant. But that is no longer necessary.
China stopped taking overseas recyclables in the fall of 2017, IWMC
started stockpiling the bags, and then burning them in Charlottetown’s
energy-from-waste plant. But that is no longer necessary.
“We’ve
seen the volume go from, it would probably be about 30 to 40 million
bags a year, basically to almost nothing,” said CEO Gerry Moore.