Japan Bursting with Plastic Garbage in the Wake of China’s 2017 Waste Import Ban
After the world's biggest exporter of plastic trash — the United States — Japan is the second-largest producer, per capita. Tokyo has consistently fallen behind other nations in limiting single-use plastics including shopping bags and food and drink containers, despite growing evidence of long-term environmental pollution, cited by Japan Times.
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