Along with rapid urbanization and improvement of people's living standards, more and more large and medium-sized cities are finding themselves "encircled" by a growing volume of garbage. The boom in ...

China is revising its legal framework in light of the world's growing environmental problems. Laws are being amended and new approaches are being adopted to lessen the negative impact of human ...

Kindergarten students learn to sort waste into four categories in a game in Rugao, Jiangsu province, earlier in June in 2019. XU HUI/FOR CHINA DAILY The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development ...

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, ...

Once packaging leaves the consumer, it enters fragmented collection and sorting systems where contamination, infrastructure gaps, and market forces determine its fate.

Garbage classification refers to a series of activities including sorting and discarding waste at home and workplaces to transporting and disposing of it in landfills or incinerators, or redirecting ...

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 ...

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has published a technical proposal for harmonised waste sorting labels on EU ...

Waste sorting at source is an important step in environmental protection, but although it has been legalised, the regulation is still not being applied in many places. Workers classify waste in the ...