The world has a serious trash problem.

According to the United Nations

we dump 2.12 billion tons of waste every year. Everyday more waste are

being discarded and trash accumulates but where does this trash go? Usually

if not recycled, trash are dumped in a landfill. Many countries are taking

initiative to reduce their waste problem by recycling and for a long time

people, including me, believed that this is enough.

For many years the recyclable waste of developed countries were

purchased by China and this has become a billion dollar industry. Then back

in 2018, China passed “National Sword” policy which banned the import of

most plastics and other materials headed for that nation's recycling

processors, which had handled nearly half of the world's recyclable waste for

the past quarter century. The recyclable waste was then passed to other

Southeast Asian countries. This has become a problem since Southeast Asian

countries doesn't have the resources to recycle so much waste that were

illegally dumped by developed countries. According to the UN Environment

report (2018), only 9% of all plastic waste ever produced has been recycled.

About 12% has been incinerated, while the rest — 79% — has accumulated

in landfills, dumps or the natural environment.