China is facing a trash crisis. In 2017, the country produced more than 400 million tons of municipal solid waste, a figure that doesn’t account for the vast quantities of garbage produced by the ...

Shanghai officials say the city’s mandatory waste-sorting program has shown “remarkable achievements” after more garbage was diverted from landfills than originally anticipated. Since July 1, ...

Liu Jidong has garbage on his brain. As the director of a neighborhood residential committee in Shanghai’s Pudong District, the 36-year-old has spent the past four months immersing himself in his ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Household trash has occupied the minds of Shanghai residents this week: specifically, are the contents of their bins "wet", "dry", "hazardous" or "recyclable"? Residents of the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Screenshot of Alipay's waste-sorting mini-program. (image credit: Technode) Every Wednesday and ...

The EU is taking legal action against France over the country’s waste-sorting regulations. In a statement, the European Commission said it would take France to the EU Court of Justice around the ...

Marketed as a virtual assistant for waste sorting, the Junker app helps consumers solve the everyday dilemma: ‘Can I recycle this?’ FoodNavigator asks co-founder Noemi De Santis how the start-up is ...