The Importance of Recycling in China

There's no Western system of recycling in China. There are so many corners cut when recycling. And this stupid shed bike thing has caused such a huge amount of damage to the environment. I hate it when people use these kind of things as an example of, look how China is. They're not. Everything that goes into these big mega projects, China does, like these big solar farms you see and the replanting of deserts and all that. It's always a big wasteful, not very well planned thing. Okay. Give me a giant mountain of bikes because I want to bring it back to reality here. Just trying to find the Xi'an pile. So I'll just have some

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