In this July 23, 2019, photo, a woman on a motorcycle covers her mouth as she passes by a line of trash collection trucks waiting to enter a trash station in the Pudong New District in Shanghai. China ...

SHANGHAI, June 28 (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 ...

China started small-scale trials of waste sorting in 2000, but landfill sites and unmanaged waste continued to encircle cities and local people protested plans to build more incinerators. Gradually, ...

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 ...