China surpasses the United States and Japan to become the world's largest waste paper importer

　　"The waste paper market is mainly in China"

　　The concept of "selling money for scrap" does not exist for the citizens of Lawrence, because scrap recycling companies only pay for the recycling of bulk metal scraps, and they are mainly aimed at corporate customers. For residents who are too lazy to put waste products on their own, the waste recycling company installs a waste recycling bin in front of their homes and collects them once a week, but at least 4.95 US dollars per month.

　　The inability to exchange money does not prevent the Lawrence people from keeping every recyclable waste "sent" to the recycling company. They even cleaned container waste products such as milk cartons before sending them for recycling to prevent the remaining liquid from spoiling and causing germs to grow.

　　There are more than a dozen companies specializing in waste recycling in this city. When they sell the waste they collect, they usually get the higher price, or after they are sold to a fixed middleman, they don’t know where they will eventually go. It is reported that a considerable part of Lawrence's waste paper came to China.

　　Most of the collected recyclable waste is shipped to China from the Port of Long Beach in California. The domestic factories in the United States have insufficient equipment to deal with all of these waste products, so their markets are mainly in China and Mexico.

　　According to the information on the website of Delfinbauch Recycling Company, the company has the largest waste treatment plant in the United States in Kansas City, which processes an average of 10,000 tons of waste every month. After the waste products are transported to this factory, workers sort and pack them manually and mechanically. Most of them are shipped to ports along the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean and delivered to middlemen engaged in the waste trade. Ship to markets such as China.