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3120/2018 China's limits on recycling being felt in Triangle, North Carolina I News & Observer BUSINESS China doesn't want your recycling anymore. Here's what that means for you. BY RICHARD STRADLING rsfradling@newsobserverrom March 15,201812:42 PM RALEIGH — The Chinese no longer want the plastic bottles, milk jugs and junk mail you put in your recycling bin at home. The world's largest buyer of recycled materials declared last summer that it would no longer import mixed paper and many types of plastic starting Jan. 1. In some parts of the U.S., bales of unwanted plastics and paper are stacking up in warehouses and in some cases going into landfills. North Carolina is also feeling the effects of China's new aversion to what it calls "foreign garbage." While companies in the Southeast that reprocess recyclables and tarn them into new products are still buying, China's policies have created a glut of materials that has depressed prices everywhere, including the Triangle. Residential mixed paper that was worth between $85 and $100 a ton a year ago was eaming about $37 a ton this winter, said Rob Taylor, who until last month headed the recycling program at the state Department of Environmental Quality. NDVEUIaING http: /Aw .newsobsemer.mm/ news /business /atele205296704.htmi 1110