2018 CE
China’s “National Sword” waste-import restrictions
Materials & manufacturing · Reciclaje, comercio y materiales secundarios
China’s restrictions announced as “National Sword” limited imports of several waste streams from 2018, including plastics, textiles, paper, and metals. They reconfigured secondary-material flows and required changes in sorting and processing, but did not end all global waste trade or guarantee sufficient local recycling.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Publication date
- 2020-12
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- 2026-09-23
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