Stiff recycling rules set by China could have $1-million impact on Edmonton

Tougher standards set by China for waste paper could mean a $1-million hit to Edmonton’s recycling effort as the city scrambles to tighten its sorting process, city officials say.
They’ve hired extra staff and slowed conveyor belts on the sorting lines, doing everything possible to get coffee cups, plastic knifes and cardboard out of the paper bundle.
An inspector from China visited last Wednesday, spending the entire afternoon inspecting bale after bale loaded onto five trucks bound