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, ...

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Yan Shanyue, a former seaman-turned-guesthouse owner, is helping transform Qingbang Island into the zero-waste island of his ...

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 ...

Recognizing the advantages of waste-to-energy (WtE) combustion over landfills, China is rapidly expanding WtE capacity nationwide to address the escalating urban waste crisis. This study compiles a ...

An established sorting provider is bringing its technology into the fashion and apparel realm. Chinese company DataBeyond has introduced a new tool for textile sortation, which it calls the AI ...

Waste generation represents an inevitable part of the manufacturing process. Considering that global production of municipal solid waste is expected to reach 3.40 billion tons by 2050 1, it poses a ...

A project in the coal-rich north is turning the tough solids of gangue into construction-grade aggregates and other ...

Defaulting to “no cutlery” options on food-delivery app orders and rewarding customers who chose to forgo plastic utensils significantly reduced single-use cutlery waste, according to a new study ...

China is turning the massive environmental liabilities of its coal-mining history into the raw ...

ZenRobotics, a Terex brand, has introduced ZenRobotics 4.0, its fourth generation of waste sorting robots with new features and upgraded artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize and improve the ...