OECD TELLS CHINA TO BOOST RECYCLING CAPACITY
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is being encouraged by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to boost its recycling capacity, a policy that could ultimately reduce Chinese demand for recycled materials from the west. There is currently an almost insatiable appetite in China for materials, given its breakneck industrialisation, but despite the waste this has generated, there has not been a parallel development in sophisticated waste management. Indeed, the OECD notes in its 'environmental performance review of China', "waste management is ...
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