I think the play here is that US, Canada and Europe will have additional pressure on their landfills. If you can't ship to China you will need to either recycle at home or put in a landfill. My guess is that some smart person will come up with new ways to process more wood, paper and plastic.
Technologies which process waste streams away from landfills will become more important.
The anaerobic and aerobic technologies can process paper, but not paper and food waste together. The ECOS digester could be adapted to work on paper, but not wood. I would assume some smart person in Korea is working on this already
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