China has unveiled a new national action plan to strengthen solid waste management, setting out reforms that will have direct implications for packaging waste systems, recycling infrastructure and the ...

As the world faces the consequences of increasing plastic waste, China has seemingly become an outspoken proponent for massive reforms and proactive solutions. First reported by Politico, Chinese ...

Seven years after becoming the first provincial-level region in China to mandate household waste sorting, Shanghai is ...

Turning trash into cash has become a big business in China, where nearly 720,000 tons of municipal waste are produced every day. The heat from incinerating that mountain of waste has increasingly been ...

Every day, the world throws away more than a billion meals while nearly 800 million people face hunger. This startling contradiction has become one of our most pressing global challenges, with new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of ...

Five World Trade Organization members have questioned China’s import ban on solid waste, particularly for certain scrap materials that could have an impact on the textile industry, at a recent meeting ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the world’s most pristine environments, is increasingly threatened by household waste and ...

In the United States, which has less than one-quarter of China's 1.3 billion people, the Sierra Club's Sierra magazine estimates almost 100 billion plastic bags are thrown out each year. The Sierra ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned the use of food waste as pig feed in provinces that have reported African swine fever outbreaks as well as neighbouring regions, the agriculture ministry said on ...