Chinese Companies Using Banned Chemical CFC-11 with Virtually No Enforcement (independent, government)

[DRob4JC]

While people focus on the U.S. with regards to the environment, China continues blowing out the ozone layer.

China is leaking banned, ozone-killing chemicals: watchdog

The Environmental Investigation Agency claims China’s construction industry is using CFC-11, a banned ozone-depleting chemical, as a cheap blowing agent to manufacture hard foam for commercial and residential buildings.

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The EIA claims to have found evidence of at least 18 companies using the banned chemical in the majority of their foam-production operations. The claims have not been independently verified.

The EIA says several Chinese construction executives openly acknowledged the use of CFC-11 last month, saying it was easy to avoid lax enforcement efforts by the Chinese government.

[saltine]

Sad. They are also the worlds largest hacker. You hear virtually nothing about this. If the msm could stop with 24/7 trump hate, maybe they could consider other serious issues.

[gwynedd1]

free trade. China is better at dumping the slop

[Freak80]

Comparative advantage.

If Country A can produce cheaper Salad Shooters than Country B by using dangerous chemicals and slave labor, then the world benefits. Who wants to live in a world where people are forced to buy expensive goods from Country B, which has expensive labor and environmental regulations?

I don’t want a world with good labor conditions and a clean environment. That’s too expensive. We need strong neoliberal policies that reward labor repression and environmental pollution. That’s the way to make the world a better place.

Any alternative to Neoliberalism is Protectionism, and Protectionism is evil.