The waste problem is a common issue in China’s urban areas, requiring each city to address it with great efforts. The waste problem has received high concern from the Chinese government. The Ministry ...

President Xi Jinping has called for garbage classification to be accelerated nationwide to help save resources and protect the environment. This is the first time he has specifically touched upon this ...

Starting April 1, throwing garbage into a wrong waste bin in Guangzhou may cost the equivalent of a fancy dinner. As the southern China metropolis seeks to reduce the amount of trash, it has decided ...

A staff member (R) explains garbage sorting to visitors at a community center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, April 30, 2020. Starting Friday, Beijing will join a club of Chinese ...

Children take part in a garbage sorting competition at a kindergarten in Linzhang County, north China's Hebei Province, June 5, 2019. Various activities were held across the country to raise people's ...

TOKYO, July 8 (Xinhua) -- In Japan, which boasts the world's strictest standards of garbage classification, waste sorting and recycling has been practiced for many years and has become a basic ...

Vietnam planned to begin implementing waste classification measures two decades ago, but a lack of support from residents, authorities and trash collectors means an efficient outcome is still nowhere ...

A staff member (L) explains garbage sorting to visitors at a community center in Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, April 30, 2020. Starting Friday, Beijing will join a club of Chinese ...