📊 Plastic, Respiratory Infections, and Migration to LatAm

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Today's charts:

1. How China’s plastic ban reshaped the recycling trade ♻

2. Cuba and Argentina’s battle with respiratory infections 🫁

3. Exploring Latin America's diverse immigration landscape 🧭

Make sure you check out the comment of the week at the bottom!

Recycling Industry ♻️

Operation National Sword (ONS) went into full effect in 2018. The Chinese policy is much less cool than it sounds. It has nothing to do with swords unless we're talking metaphorically about cutting, in this case, the country's imports of plastic. Up to that point, China had been importing millions of kilograms of it, mainly from Europe and North America, for two decades.