Happy Earth Day! This year the Earth Day Network is shining the spotlight on ending plastic pollution among other global goals. There’s no debate that plastic scraps and waste continue to fill our landfills, rivers and oceans, choking our planet. For decades, China has been taking on much of the burden of recycling global plastic waste, all while the country struggles with its own pollution and climate change challenges. That all stopped in 2017 under a new government policy that bans the importation of most plastic waste. This action has policy makers, environmentalists and others asking: Where will the world’s plastic waste go now?