That same year, he expressed his intention to undertake a follow-up project on waste imports beyond plastics, which he tentatively titled Dumping Ground of the World (shijie de laji chang) (Liu 2014). However, the film is all too often reduced to its function as a tool for denouncing environmental dumping. The state-owned company was recently named the third-largest single-use plastic waste producer in the world, where in 2019, it reportedly churned out about 5.3 million tonnes of plastics. Dr. Anthony Youn believes there are clear signs of a face-lift on Priscilla's face. It is a moment that for many observers has come to define strongman leader Xi Jinping's tightening grip on China: his visibly frail predecessor, Hu Jintao, being escorted out of . We all must initiate a seismic cultural shift that sees a serious slowing down of our relentless consumerism. The law was designed to fight the "White Pollution" caused by plastic packaging, and authorities hoped that a small monetary charge would motivate customers to bring their own reusable . The photographer-turned-director's debut documentary, 2011's Beijing Besieged by. The REDcycle program which was suspended in November and points at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets were closed. Made in China publications are open access and always available as a free download. The Pengs precarious existence and the fact that they are basically left to fend for themselves is striking for both Chinese and foreign viewers. Enforcement of the policy had begun to loosen by the early 2000s, as horrific stories of forced abortions and botched sterilizations caused policymakers to rethink the rule. "I thought this is it if I do not have this child, my body will not be able to have any more.". Waste incineration capabilities are to be greatly increased, with the aim of reaching up to burning 800,000 tons of urban domestic waste per day by 2025. Just like Beijing Besieged by Waste, the movie uncovers a gnarly scene beyond the cosmopolitan city. by China's decision to focus on domestic recycling in an effort to clean up their own landfills is a slap in the face to our First World consumer culture. It was featured in numerous festivals outside China, and has won several awards. The doctors strangled or drowned those babies.". The news hit hard in the United States, which is home to about 60,000 children adopted from China, mostly girls. 0000003355 00000 n
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Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images The family obviously lives on very little, and Wang Kun, the breadwinner, has a possibly serious affliction that affects his capacity to work, and remains undiagnosed and untreated, partly because he fears that seeking medical attention could result in high expenses. 0000017854 00000 n
"The policy was wrong and what we did with Chen was right," says a neighbor of Chen, the lawyer who sued the city of Linyi. "It has been so many years, and I have let the pain go," the mother of three says, eyes downcast. Inside, a middle-school student completes his homework. In 2020 alone, China produced about 60 million tonnes of plastic waste, yet only 16 million tonnes of which was recycled, according to the China National Resources Recycling Association. November 15, 2022. And I was carrying a camera, so it was especially tough at the beginning. Much of the Western worlds waste was once bound for China. "Women have it all figured out now they won't have more kids even when they're told to have more!" AFP via Getty Images The fact that the children are alive at all makes Chen, the lawyer, feel his seven years in prison and house arrest were all worth it. The prosperity of Chinas coastal regions relies on a massive inflow of migrant workers from the interior, who rarely have much bargaining power regarding their working conditions. This is on top of the fact that Chinas population is growing by 0.5% on average annually. However, it is also strongly implied that Yijies gender played a role in her parents decision to neglect her education. He's the youngest of three children this mother had under China's one-child policy. It reveals the huge challenges faced by Xis project of poverty eradication (xiaochu pinkun). Thus, in a way, Wang departs from the perspective of environmental dumping. Anxious about already strained public education and health care systems, China's leadership is reportedly considering ditching limits entirely. Beijing seems to be neither "biding its time" nor rising peacefully. He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the China Centre, University of Oxford. A deliberate shift in consumption will not happen overnight. He used a pickax to drive them off and was imprisoned for that for half a year. ! Wang recalled. He was able to fly to the U.S. after weeks of tense negotiation. Moreover, Plastic China contains virtually no direct criticism of any government, state-owned enterprise, or other powerful entitya key difference with Under the Dome (qiong ding zhi xia 2015), another documentary on Chinas environmental predicament that also went viral and disappeared from the Internet in a matter of days. Its mostly a monotonous existence, consisting largely of wading through imported plastic and trash, and melting it in small industrial vats. As research on plastic and its detriments on the environment increasingly pop up on our news feeds, its obvious that weve reached a breaking point. one of the fairly recent ancesto. The Yangtze river, the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world, is an important water body in China. According to the report, his wife was forced to confess that before her marriage, she had spent 60,000 on plastic surgery in South Korea, and looked completely different to how she was born. It was followed very selectively. But as these shocking plastic pollution statistics show, the world at large generates at least 350 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, making it one of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime. China implemented the policy of limiting each family to one child in 1979 to slow the growth of the country's population. August 4, 2020 1:46pm. "There is only one China and there is only one one-child policy, so it is kind of impossible to say the real effect of that was [of the policy]," he says. Back in the 1960s, more than 100 children - mostly abandoned, mostly babies and mostly girls - were brought over from Hong Kong to be adopted by British families. In the film we witness Kun and his family looking for a new car, despite the fact that their old family van continues to serve them fairly well. On average, only about. China has been taking US plastic waste for three decades. This film debuted two years ago, but its relevance is striking in the wake of Chinas sudden refusal to continue importing foreign waste. 04:22. This has lead to a major shift in China, family is now seen as the 3 living generations . This means that people eating fish have also been consuming plastics. Yet, have linked the Yangtze river as the one of the biggest sources of global plastic pollution, claiming the river to be responsible for more than half of all marine plastic pollution, but more recent studies found that the, Philippines accounts for more than one-third. What could the family planning officials have done to her? The suit led to an apology from the authorities in Linyi and a reduction in the kidnappings, beatings and forced abortions. "There was also rapid urbanization, economic growth, industrialization, female emancipation and more female labor force participation. 0000001204 00000 n
Such a context makes it very risky for the latter to adopt a long-term perspective and invest in new equipment or techniques. It has been ten months since China closed its doors to the world's recycling waste. How China's plastic waste ban forced a global recycling reckoning. Trailer for 'Plastic China' film by director Wang Jiuliang. He asks Wang Kun, his boss and the owner of the recycling workshop the Pengs work in, for a raise. The terror of such enforcement of birth limits was widespread in Linyi, even if residents were not themselves planning on giving birth. Yeah, in China you'll meet tons of people who had siblings born while the one-child policy was in effect. In 2016, the Ontario government released its Strategy for a Waste-Free Ontario, diverting our wasteful ways towards a completely circular economy (zero-waste) by 2050. In China recycling is done by the trash collectors who specialize in different kinds of refuse rubber, aluminum, tin, plastic, paper and either collect these materials by going house to house or sort through the garbage, selling what they find to traders. 0000023031 00000 n
That's up from 152 million ten years. On average, only about 17% of the plastic used in China is recycled in some shape or form. Single's Day, China's biggest online shopping holiday akin to Black Friday in the U.S. is a recognition of the many bachelors who are unable to find partners in a gender-skewed society. But Chinas contribution to the global plastic crisis does not end there. Single-use plastics are also made almost entirely from fossil fuels. 0000022087 00000 n
That's pushing policymakers to consider raising the official retirement age currently 60 for men and 55 for women for the first time in 40 years. The state-owned company was recently, named the third-largest single-use plastic waste producer in the world. "All we can do is go on living," she says. Today, the world produces nearly 350 million tonnes of plastic waste, which is projected to double by 2040 if no action is taken. We desperately need large-scale investment into domestic recycling plants paired with less garbage being tossed aside every day by us, the ones who buy and discard, day in and day out. "There is no point in controlling them. No full, official . 0000017207 00000 n
Director Jiu-Liang Wang refers to PLASTIC CHINA as a title which riffs on the idea of plastic surgerya way of masking the underlying physical truth of any given situation. Plastic China (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ) is a 2016 Chinese documentary film depicting the lives of two families who make their living recycling plastic waste imported from developed countries. Ten years after China's infant milk tragedy, parents still won't trust their babies to local formula . It is against this backdrop that Plastic China came out in 2016. In other words, though it looks good exteriorly, it has a lot of interior problems (Kanthor 2017). 2a cmAAASDMn,!T+FrHV`)sbg:\8B@}Np(D3uOGh1.\8}) n"%UtZ-)9Kn>{b^xFrn{g(dX
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O. ", A man and a child are reflected on a glass panel displaying a tiger at the Museum of Natural History in Beijing, Dec. 2, 2016. But even there Johnson found numerous stories of families going to great lengths . She babysits, cooks, works and teaches her three younger siblings while her parents do the same back-breaking work day in and day out. Either the government is already losing faith in the reality of its implementation, or it needs a bigger budget for advertising. Experts warn of an increase in illegal dumping and incineration of plastics as prices for plastic scraps plummet in the wake of Chinas exit from the market it dominated. In the cinema version of Plastic China, the concept of labour exploitation applies more clearly within China and even among former peasants than it does between China and the highly industrialised countries from which waste is imported. Climate. But Stuart Gietel-Basten, a demographer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, cautions there is no definitive answer. Answer (1 of 7): Hi, from the grandchild of 3 families that would probably be considered bourgeois before 49 Family 1: Paternal Grandfather family, granted this was a quirky case as he was the son of a landlord (the most dominant family in that village for sure. 2014 and Persico 2010) and Zhao Liang (see Sorace 2017), among other leading Chinese independent filmmakers. 0000003466 00000 n
INVERSE 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. (Liu 2014). Ng Han Guan/AP China has imported 45 percent of the world's plastic refuse since 1992, allowing many other countries, including the United States, to dodge the question of how to process the unwanted material, a . "People act in funny ways," she says. A familiar margarine packet among the mountains of rubbish in a backyard recycling facility on China. WUHAN, China Zhang Hai has a warning to World Health Organization-led scientists researching the origin of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China: Don't be fooled. It's margarine tubs, clamshells, deli containers. Initially Feng. This ambitious plan requires the full participation of producers to consumers and is an inspirational idea, though I hadnt even heard of it before digging through plastic research, and it doesnt seem to be very widely discussed. She is especially protective of him. The legacy of China's one-child rule is still painfully felt by many of those who suffered for having more children. For decades, China has relied on superficial policies targeting plastic to reduce waste in the country. The LEGO Foundation is awarding a total of DKK 900 million (approximately US$ 117 Million) to support organisations that make substantial contributions to the lives of children from birth to six years old and spark a global movement to prioritise early childhood development. 0000019453 00000 n
"Our main products are paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, mixed plastics . of plastic inputs in oceans while putting China at 7%. After 25 years as the world's salvage king, China refused to buy any recycled plastic scrap that wasn't 99.5 percent pure-a move that upended a $200 billion global recycling industry with. I wanted to find out the origin of the garbage and realized that they were importing waste from the west and other developed countries, even in Asia, like Japan and Korea.. of mismanaged plastic waste, and is the biggest offender of ocean plastic pollution. There were virtually no incentives to comply with environmental and safety regulation, and local authorities made little effort to improve the sectorin large part because officials at the village or town level had a stake in rapid, unbridled economic growth. , resulting in mounting plastic packaging. 0000010492 00000 n
03:15. The new documentary 'Plastic China' plunges into the dirty side of recycling. The main character is the employee's daughter, who never gets sent to school because she is helping her parents watch her younger siblings and sort through mountains of shredded plastic. ", A mother and a grandmother take care of a child in Beijing on Jan. 1, 2016. The family, who lives near the city of Kunming in Yunnan province, adopted what . CNN . The . Second, this prevents us from understanding why the film was censored in China, when the denunciation of waste imports actually fits with the Chinese states increasingly restrictive policies on this issue since the 2010s. LINYI, China Outside, rain falls. Our current pattern of manufacture, consume, discard is creating a chain of exploitation; it exploits the workers making our products, it exploits us through merciless advertising; and it exploits millions of poverty-stricken laborers working for a pittance like . In March 2018, China's environment minister at the time, Li Ganjie, noted that China used to import around 4 to 4.5 million tons of solid, unrecyclable trash. "A very unbalanced population gender-wise has also led to a rise in property prices in major cities because families of men have bought apartments to make their sons eligible in a marriage market where there are millions of missing women," says Mei Fong, who wrote a book on the one-child rule. The Yangtze river, the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world, is an important water body in China. "If you carry it with you all the time, it gets too tiring.". All together, these measures are aligned with the countrys 2060 carbon neutrality targets. Up to 60 per cent of Quebecs plastics went to China before its ban; Halifax is reportedly sending three hundred tonnes of plastic to landfill, and Calgary is sitting on five thousand tonnes of plastic waste, with all of that having gone to China in the past. Today, he lives in Maryland with his family. One night, family planning officials approached her husband, intending to pressure him and his wife into ending the pregnancy. By donating us $100, $50 or subscribe to Boosting $10/month we can get this article and others in front of tens of thousands of specially targeted readers. The documentary is also a meditation on issues of gender inequality. The country once imported nearly half of the planet's plastic recyclables. Midway through its annual session, China's ceremonial parliament is focusing on boosting the economy, building self-reliance in technology and further squeezing room for political opposition in Hong Kong. The brother of China's last emperor who was pushed off the throne more than 100 years ago has died. We figured out that the waste wasnt necessarily Chinese waste, so I started to research what was behind this huge mountain of waste and all the dumping, and the fires, and smog, Wang told Inverse, through a translator, at Sundance. With almost a spooky resemblance to Wildenstein, the Bogdanoff brothers - like her - are still injecting and filling into their seventies. This means that people eating fish have also been consuming plastics. One night in August 2008, the mother made a fateful decision. "Despite all the overwhelming demographic evidence, they're saying, 'We need to control you,'" says the author, Fong. In this rugged hardpan of north China known for poverty and coal, Zhang Yi had but two frail daughters to help scratch out a living. Whats more, about 91% of all plastic that has ever been made is not recycled, meaning that plastic which can take up to 500 years to decompose keeps accumulating and degrading our natural environments. Thats the main source of outward tension in the film, though the squalor in which they all live is a painful commentary on the costs of rapid growth in such a stratified country. The young girl would love to visit the United States, but shed settle for going to school something her father, Peng, an alcoholic who works for the plant manager, has no interest in making happen. There is one obvious, clear, imperative measure that we all must make a priority- we must reduce the amount of plastics we use every day. Since the first protest on Nov. 26th, demonstrations popped up in every area of the country. A Chinese family has been forced to give up their pet dog after realizing they had actually adopted a black bear. She carried her son to term while hiding in a relative's house. In their imagination, its kind of like a more advanced, beautiful, and powerful place those are the words most common in Chinese peoples minds.. And so, ironically, now that people are allowed to have more children, they are increasingly reluctant to, because of the high cost of child care and education. After six months of getting to know two families who worked at one small plant, Wang was allowed intimate access to their lives. Plastic China focuses on materially ambitious factory-owner Kun, his employee Peng, and their families. In one interview about the film, Wang stated that: China is a country that is facelifted, concealed, faked and unnatural. In this essay, I argue that Plastic China should be considered as a rich social commentary and critique, and interpreted in the light of Chinas tradition of independent documentary-making in the reform era. NPR isn't using her name to protect her identity because of the trauma she suffered. When the inevitable collapse came, most of the companies went bankrupt, leaving city authorities having to pay to clean up the mess. "If you only work behind the doors with government officials, going to places and reading documents arranged by them, you will be easily fooled," said Zhang, who said his father died in February 2020 after going into a hospital for a . Some of them were located in rural recycling hubs, but many were not. The global plastic pollution crisis continues to worsen every year. With Plastic China, Wang aimed to raise awareness of his homelands role in the global waste trade, and expose its negative repercussions on the Chinese population and environment. However, implementation of this reform only begun several years into the shooting of Plastic China (which lasted from 2011 to 2016), and remains patchy to this day. He's the youngest of three children this mother had under China's. There are clear signs that this space is shrinking nowadays, yet this does not stop many independent filmmakers from pursuing their mission (Berry 2017). what happened to the families in plastic china. Mao Yin was snatched aged two, while his father stopped to get him some water on the way home. Not only does the country consume, at least one fifth of the worlds plastics. 0000039672 00000 n
The film denounces values and behaviours that are nowadays increasingly associated with the pre-Xi reform era, but which are far from having vanished from present-day China, and are proving hard to shake off. Inside, a middle-school student completes his homework. In the last two years, the issue of waste exports to China has attractedconsiderable mediaand public attention. At that point, it was already the world's most populous country. Posted in Article, Work of Arts. While more time is needed to analyse the bans impacts domestically, it has had rippling effects across global plastic pollution and management. The legacy of China's one-child rule is still painfully felt by many of those who suffered for having more children. She wanted to avoid the "family planning officials" in her home village, just outside Linyi, a city of 11 million in China's northern Shandong province, where the policy's enforcement was especially violent. One first reason why Plastic China should be considered as a comprehensive reflection on the contemporary condition in China is that this is consistent with the directors intention. Since taking office as president, Xi Jinping has striven to distinguish his government from the previous one. Her job at a nearby canning factory refuses to hire her full time, she says, because she is a mother of three and needs to leave every afternoon to pick up her son from school. Lu says the harassment became so savage that elderly residents of Linyi became afraid to leave their homes out of fear they might be kidnapped. It was vicious," he says. Its actually incredible that the film, which calls into question the Chinese governments devotion to environmentalism and the welfare of its people, actually made it out of the country. Boost this article A burning armoured personnel carrier on 4 June 1989, near Tiananmen Square. For decades, China has relied on superficial policies targeting plastic to reduce waste in the country. In China, rural migrants are generally registered in their place of origin but spend most of their time living far away from their hometowns. They take her elsewhere, to a place where she can picture a better life, andmost damning of allit looks like this could be abroad. State media celebrated the news. At some point, Wang Kun pushes for Yijie to attend a local kindergarten, even offering to cover the costs, yet Yijies father, Peng Wenyuan, refuses, preferring that she continue to sort plastics, do household chores, and take care of her younger siblings. Acquiring this potent status symbol allows them to have the feelingand give others the impressionthat they have achieved wealth, and moved up the social ladder. 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