China's National Sword policy caused the quantity of plastic landfilled in the U.S. to jump by 23, researchers at the University at Buffalo found.The University of Buffalo study determined that while China's Green Fence policy in 2013 had no statistically significant impact on the amount of plastic landfilled in the U.S., the National Sword import restriction was a different story. After controlling for oil prices, the producer price index and the amount of plastic scrap exported, the research found that 23.2 more plastic was sent to U.S. landfills in 2018, the year China's import bans began to take effect.
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