From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the United States (US) to Australia, China's ban on accepting the world's used plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil.For many years, China received the bulk of scrap plastic from around the world, processing much of it into a higher quality material that could be used by manufacturers.But at the start of 2018, it closed its doors to almost all foreign plastic waste, as wel