Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 1/26/19

Chemours has been shipping GenX waste across the Atlantic, collecting the chemicals at its Bladen County plant for processing in an arrangement that surprised state regulators. The company says it's simply recycling these materials as it has been for years, but a contractor's bankruptcy in Europe required it to ship more material back from a plant in the Netherlands. The company said all of the GenX is created at its Fayetteville Works near the Bladen-Cumberland line, and it is simply shipped to the Netherlands for use there, then some is shipped back for recycling, which reduces waste.

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