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Is This The End of Recycling? <br /> ire <br /> ]�` I ` I ■[■ 1 5��1 <br /> 1Y * Y 1 1 <br /> Ik F <br /> Large bundles of compressed cardboard await pickup in Greenville,South Carolina in Apri1201 S.SHUTTERSTOCK <br /> By Alana Semuels, <br /> The Atlantic <br /> March 5,2019 <br /> Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that <br /> other countries won't take our papers and plastics, they're <br /> ending up in the trash. <br /> After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. <br /> Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country have bins for plastic bottles and <br /> aluminum cans and newspapers. In some cities, you can be fined if inspectors discover you <br /> haven't recycled appropriately. <br /> But now, much of that carefully sorted recycling is ending up in the trash. <br /> For decades, we were sending the bulk of our recycling to China—tons and tons of it, sent over <br /> on ships to be made into goods like shoes and bags and new plastic products. But last year,the <br />