Cardboard collectors struggle as prices fall amid strike by waste paper exporters
(WorldNews Environment)

Amid a week-long strike by Hong Kong’s waste paper exporters, an 89-year-old grandmother, who has collected used cardboard in Causeway Bay for years, continued with her daily “job” on Saturday as she tried to make ends meet despite a price slump. The industrial action by local firms was a response to a shift in mainland policy, announced in July, with the aim of banning imports of 24 types of polluting “foreign rubbish” by the end of the year. About 1,000 recycling......