Mountains of newspaper, cardboard, and office scraps are piling up in Hong Kong after a Chinese ban on 24 types of unprocessed rubbish imports left the city stranded with its trash.
Last year Hong Kong exported 90 percent of it recyclables to China and has no effective recycling industry of it own.
Hong Kong’s 7 million inhabitants produce 5.6 million tonnes of landfill annually, little of which is recycled.