New rules requiring local restaurants, schools, caterers and grocery stores to recycle food waste are keeping tons of old food out of landfills and instead turning it into compost used by gardeners ...

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 ...

Liu Jidong has garbage on his brain. As the director of a neighborhood residential committee in Shanghai’s Pudong District, the 36-year-old has spent the past four months immersing himself in his ...

The EU is taking legal action against France over the country’s waste-sorting regulations. In a statement, the European Commission said it would take France to the EU Court of Justice around the ...

SHANGHAI, June 28 (Reuters) - Household trash has occupied the minds of Shanghai residents this week: specifically, are the contents of their bins "wet", "dry", "hazardous" or "recyclable"? Residents ...

Robots are taking over the dirty work of sorting through our trash and turning it into valuable resources. And not just any robots, but smart robots that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify ...

Marketed as a virtual assistant for waste sorting, the Junker app helps consumers solve the everyday dilemma: ‘Can I recycle this?’ FoodNavigator asks co-founder Noemi De Santis how the start-up is ...

Shanghai officials say the city’s mandatory waste-sorting program has shown “remarkable achievements” after more garbage was diverted from landfills than originally anticipated. Since July 1, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Screenshot of Alipay's waste-sorting mini-program. (image credit: Technode) Every Wednesday and ...