A Chinese woman holds her baby as she strips labels from plastic soda bottles so they can be recycled. If she works hard, she can earn about $15 a day. (Peter Ford/The Christian Science Monitor)
9:41 am ET -US recyclers are nervous about losing their largest market after China began enforcing new environmental laws this year.
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