What analyzing National Sword can teach us about optimizing US plastics recycling
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 16, 2022
Jessica Heiges is a PhD candidate in environmental science, policy, and management, and Kate O’Neill is a professor of global environmental politics, at the University of California, Berkeley. They recently published research titled “A Recycling Reckoning: How Operation National Sword catalyzed a transition in the U.S. plastic recycling system.”
The U.S. plastics recycling system is in a long-overdue transition, one triggered by the global disruption caused by China’s Operation National Sword.
With no methodical planning, the U.S. plastics recycling system evolved into a scattered one with under-funded infrastructure . . .
