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This photo taken on April 17, 2019 shows recycled plastic bottles at the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority's recycling site in Edinburgh, near Adelaide. - From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China's ban on accepting the world's used plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil. (Photo by Brenton EDWARDS / AFP) / TO GO WITH Environment-waste-Malaysia-China-Australia, FOCUS by Sam Reeves and Poornima Weerasekara (Photo credit should read BRENTON EDWARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

This photo taken on April 17, 2019 shows recycled plastic bottles at the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority's recycling site in Edinburgh, near Adelaide. - From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China's ban on accepting the world's used plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil. (Photo by Brenton EDWARDS / AFP) / TO GO WITH Environment-waste-Malaysia-China-Australia, FOCUS by Sam Reeves and Poornima Weerasekara        (Photo credit should read BRENTON EDWARDS/AFP/Getty Images)