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 ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI — China’s biggest city has dived headfirst into a trash sorting program that marks the country’s first serious attempt at cutting the amount of garbage headed for landfills. But despite a ...

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, ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI (AP) — China’s biggest city has dived headfirst into a trash sorting program that marks the country’s first serious attempt at cutting the amount of garbage headed for landfills nationwide.

SHANGHAI (AP) - China’s biggest city has dived headfirst into a trash sorting program that marks the country’s first serious attempt at cutting the amount of garbage headed for landfills. But despite ...