Along with rapid urbanization and improvement of people's living standards, more and more large and medium-sized cities are finding themselves "encircled" by a growing volume of garbage. The boom in ...

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, ...

Starting this spring, Beijing will become the second Chinese city to impose a compulsory household waste-sorting policy, affecting some 21 million residents. The capital’s top policymaking body ...

Like much of the Western world, Canada is facing a crisis in waste disposal as landfills reach their capacity. In Ontario, a ...

Beijing is implementing a complete cycle of garbage disposal methods - including waste separation, refuse transportation and classification and waste incineration - according to the officials in the ...

SANYA, June 30. /TASS/. The Sanya authorities will introduce mandatory household waste sorting system starting from October 1, reported by the Hainan Daily. According to the publication, the city’s ...

ON MONDAY, Shanghai's first regulation on domestic waste management will come into effect, which requires residents to sort their garbage before putting it into garbage cans. There are potential fines ...

Vietnamese inventor Tran Van Truong creates automated waste-sorting system to reclaim resources, reduce landfill waste, and revive polluted dump sites.

The Singapore-based Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has issued two playbooks designed to boost the collection and sorting of plastic packaging for recycling, including one that addresses the role ...

Waste sorting at source is an important step in environmental protection, but although it has been legalised, the regulation is still not being applied in many places. Workers classify waste in the ...