Who says environmentalism isn't profitable?

Don’t know if anyone heard (this is not the type of thing to make headlines in American media), but the richest person in all of China is, for the first time in their history, a woman. That’s interesting, sure. But here’s the kicker: she made all her money from recycling paper. Yep. Her company, Nine Dragons Paper, buys scrap paper from the US to use in China. And somehow her worth within this past year jumped from $345 million to $3.4 billion dollars. According to the BBC, that makes her “the richest self-made woman in the world.” She even beat Oprah!

 

Forget outsourcing and illegal immigration. We need to worry about other countries buying our trash—and turning a profit on it! Apparently all this country needs to do is pay attention to environmental issues and our economy would be soaring.

 

-W.