CONWAY — China no longer has an appetite for waste paper from the United States, and now the town’s public works director is seeking ideas for how to dispose of mixed paper that’s brought to the transfer station.
Public Works Director Paul DegliAngeli told the Sun Wednesday that China has become concerned with contamination that was coming in commingled from U.S. recyclables under a new policy called “National Sword.”
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