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Published 9 years ago by funhonestdude with 1 Comments
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China doesn’t even want to buy our garbage anymore

Since 2007, one of America's top exports to China has been... trash. Yes, trash. That includes everything from scrap metal and paper to cardboard and crumpled soda cans. The United States sold $10.8 billion worth of metal and paper scrap to China in 2011.

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  • MrsBean
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    And yet China has no problems shipping its garbage to us. Hmmmm.

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