As buyers of recycled materials raise standards, waste managers are encouraging people to be careful about how they recycle. (Credit kennysarmy / Flickr CC)
Much of recycled cardboard in the U.S. used to head straight to China.
But in March, the government there decided to raise standards for importing recycled material.
And as Mallory Noe-Payne reports, that’s had an impact right here in Virginia.
Virginia Public Radio 