While energy-from-waste plants are widely regarded as a cleaner alternative to landfills, new research has revealed some facilities produce more carbon emissions per unit of electricity output than ...

China has launched a national action plan to reform solid waste management, setting new targets for packaging waste, recycling and circular economy compliance.

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, ...

DONGGUAN, China, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- China's first fully automated textile waste sorting line has officially entered operation at Zhangjiagang Shanhesheng Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

GRODNO, 22 July (BelTA) – The Chinese company will build a waste sorting plant near Grodno, BelTA learned from chief engineer of the capital construction management at the Grodno Oblast Executive ...

The world’s first industrial-scale chemical recycling plant with 200,000-tonne annual capacity has successfully begun trial production in Jieyang city in China’s Guangdong province, China Daily ...

Carbios, a France-based company that uses biological technologies to recycle plastic and textiles, has signed a joint letter of intent with China-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) producer Zhink ...

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 ...

TOO many incinerators, too little waste – China’s waste-to-energy (WtE) industry has found itself in this peculiar dilemma in recent years. Amid this imbalance in supply and demand, an increasing ...

China’s cities have long struggled with the challenge of being overwhelmed by trash. In early 2020, the country’s largest landfill site — Jiangcungou Landfill in Xi’an, capital of the northwestern ...