In this July 23, 2019, photo, a woman on a motorcycle covers her mouth as she passes by a line of trash collection trucks waiting to enter a trash station in the Pudong New District in Shanghai. China ...

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 ...

Garbage has become a hot topic in Shanghai in recent months as residents fret over new municipal regulations on trash sorting set to go into effect July 1. The Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress ...

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, ...