Climate Adaptation
China’s War on Garbage Faces a Major Coronavirus Setback
- Lockdowns increased food deliveries in plastic containers
- Urban recycling centers lack staff and new projects may stall
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China’s lockdown may have reduced air pollution as factories and power plants halted, but the pandemic has had the opposite effect on the nation’s nascent recycling effort.