China seizes 11.4 tonnes of adult diapers imported from US in crackdown on foreign waste.
Chinese customs officials have seized 11.4 tonnes of substandard adult diapers – deemed to be waste products – that had been illegally imported from the United States and repackaged in Thailand before they were shipped to China, according to state media.
“These diapers are a waste product from the production process of overseas diaper companies,” Wang Bo, a customs official, told the broadcaster. “They are mainly unusable or substandard products created when these companies’ machines start up, or when the raw materials are changed over.” They had been sorted and repacked “according to customers’ requirements” at a small factory in the city of Xinyi which the authorities said did not meet health and safety standards. They were then sold as Chinese brands on shopping websites, the businessman told customs officials.
China’s waste ban has rocked the recycling world and revealed Hong Kong’s dire record. What next for the city’s rising mountains of trash?China used to be the world’s biggest importer of waste, which was recycled in the country for use in the domestic market. But as part of efforts to clean up the environment, Beijing banned the import of 24 types of solid waste – including plastic, paper and textiles – from January 2018.
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