Many factors matter when it comes to sustainable urban life. The safe treatment of trash is one of them. Beijing is asking its citizens for opinions about the proposed garbage classification rules ...

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 ...

China has promoted sorting of urban household waste for nearly 20 years — but with little effect. Now the country’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is setting up a working group to ...

Over the past year, the city has launched a program aimed at promoting the classification of trash at local households into three types - organic, inorganic and recycled. So far, six districts in the ...

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 ...