Editor's note: This is the first in a series looking back at some of the most important, timely or unusual stories covered by China Daily's reporters last year. Wang Jiaxue can still remember the ...

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 ...

Vietnam plans to start sorting waste at source later this month, but I hear no mention about how it will be collected and transported. That worries me. Seven years ago, I got to spend nine months ...

The revised regulations on household waste classification and management took effect in Beijing on May 1. Since the blueprint for sorting waste was issued in 2017, China has made steady progress in ...

SHANGHAI — Since July 1, Mao Defeng and her husband have had to work from before dawn until well after sunset every day. Employed as sanitation workers by a residential complex in downtown Xuhui ...

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, ...