China has unveiled a new national action plan to strengthen solid waste management, setting out reforms that will have direct implications for packaging waste systems, recycling infrastructure and the ...

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The firm managing a waste heap which collapsed and buried dozens of buildings in southern China was urged to stop work four days before the disaster, an executive with a government ...

At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket ...

HANGZHOU, 19 January (BelTA - China Daily) - Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, has been selected as one of the "20 Cities Towards Zero Waste" under the United Nations ...

The global solar power boom, largely fueled by China's dominant manufacturing, is set to create a staggering 88 million tons of solar waste by 2050. Recycling solar panels remains costly and complex, ...

China has completed a complex spiral access ramp at the Beishan Underground Research Laboratory, one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world designed for managing radioactive waste. The ...

China’s clean energy boom is saddled with a major challenge: what to do with all its old wind and solar equipment. The country, which is the world leader in renewable energy capacity, has built solar ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...