$21m-worth of NZ recycling banned from China

There are fears $20 million-worth of plastic, paper and other waste will end up in landfill when it can no longer be recycled in China. From next year, China will stop taking certain waste products, saying contaminants mixed in with the recycling are polluting its environment. That leaves New Zealand companies with tens of thousands of tonnes of waste with little choice but to stockpile it until they find another solution.