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 ...

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, ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

To punish those who don't sort their garbage correctly, cameras are installed in garbage trucks and their images are analyzed by an AI. The proliferation of waste sorting bins in our towns and cities ...

China's capital city of Beijing is to pilot a bonus scheme starting from next year to reward citizens who practice their own garbage sorting. According to the Beijing Times, the project will employ QR ...