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“China not only didn’t [reverse] the policy; in fact, they even added more items in the list that they’re not going to take from any other part of the world, not only USA,” says Sahadat Hossain who directs the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability at the University of Texas at Arlington. “So it seems China is not going to change their 0.5% contamination rule at all.” He says the U.S., and Texas specifically, are in a waste management crisis brought on by overconsumption. “So, think about the consequence: One: you have a lot of plastic; you used to send it to China, now you cannot send. If you cannot make a local market, if you cannot create a local market, they’re going back to our landfill. And many of the major metropolitan cities, they’re running out of landfill space,” Hossain says.