How America’s Trash Becomes China’s Treasure
Bloomberg Businessweek has published a lengthy excerpt from contributor Adam Minter’s...
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Villagers in Guilin Protest Landfill Site
Residents in Guilin protested a planned residential landfill site. From China Economic Net: About 800 people in Lingchuan county of Guilin in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region petitioned on Saturday against a...
Beijing to Sweeten Stench of Rubbish Crisis with Giant Deodorant Guns
The Guardian reports on a novel new way that Beijing is dealing with its overflowing landfills: giant fragrance guns: The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m,...
Chinese Protesters Return to Streets After Olympics
Jonathan Watts from TheObserver reports on the recent protest against a Beijing landfill site. In a sign that the Olympics feelgood factor has already begun to evaporate, protesters took to the streets of Beijing yesterday in an...
Beijing Running Out of Garbage Landfills – Southern Weekend
Beijing needs cleaner air, more water, but more urgently perhaps, it needs to find where to dump its trash. Translated from Southern Weekend, (photo: the landfill site) via sina.com: Liu Ying (ÂàòËã±), a 30-year resident of Beijing’s northwestern Liulitun (ÂÖ≠Èáå±Ø), is often awakened by the smell of trash in the latter half of the night. […]
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