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Chinese Student Environmentally Friendly Fashion Show
Yesterday, a fashion show was held in Wuhu Anhui. Unlike, the ones that grace the runways of Paris, London, New York, or Shanghai, the clothing highlighted at this show was designed by elementary kids...
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Where America Recycles: China
I have written on the topic before in terms of how the value of scrap was driving people to rip wire out of houses, and football stadiums, and 60 minutes recently did a spot on eWaste in China. Now,...
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Chinese Officials Baffled by 60 Minutes eWaste Report
Last year, you may remember the 60 minutes report 60 Minutes Covers eWaste in China where they followed a container of ewaste from the US to Guiyi China. Interesting enough, according to the article...
View ArticleRecycling Can Boost Economies
Having just finished an article on the need to develop industrial systems that better capture and reuse waste, I found the follow clip interesting. In the article Chinese Vice Premier says recycling...
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Guiyu eWaste Recylcing in Pictures
Over the last 6 months, the city of Guiyu and its industry of recycling eWaste has seen a lot of coverage. First you had the report from 60 Minutes then you had the denial from local officials...
View ArticleChina’s Plastic Bag Ban is A Mixed Bag
When China banned free ultrathin plastic bags last year, it was hailed worldwide, and the initial weeks it was difficult to deny the difference. A trip to foreign markets like B&Q, METRO, and TESCO...
View ArticleChina’s Trash Dumps Are… a Dump
Learning that China’s landfills are an environmentally mixed bag should come as no surprise to anyone, a story that Eastday’s article Landfill sites fail green screenfocuses on, but more alarmingly,...
View Article‘Green’ production making inroads in China
A new shade of green is gradually sweeping across China’s export manufacturing industry, one that took a while to take root. Companies are riding the environment-friendly wave. Pressure from the...
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Just Because it can be Recycled, It Doesn’t Make it Right
It’s not often the same firms catalyzes me to write a piece twice, but I am going to take advantage of the opportunities that Coca Cola so generously provided this morning with a show about their...
View ArticleNew Report: Informal Waste Management in China
Most people can make money from waste … They start work at five in the morning and get off at 10 at night; they never rest and don’t spend much money. In one year, about 72,000 RMB. After a little over...
View ArticleShanghai’s Informal Waste Sector is Formalizing. FAST!
With the rapid growth of China, citizens become more affluent and waste has been generated with an unprecedented rate, many of China’s first and second tier cities have been forced to rethink waste...
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Event Report: Waste Management is a Collective Responsibility Lunch and Learn
Yesterday, in collaboration with the Shanghai European Chamber of Commerce, Collective Responsibility hosted a Lunch and Learn event to help increase awareness about waste and waste management in...
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China’s E-Waste Challenge
In this post, we continue our insight into the areas of the consumer waste framework in China. Last week we addressed the packaging industry and here we focus on the developing e-waste stream. By...
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China’s Electric Vehicle Boom Brings a Wave of Battery Waste
The amount of retired EV (electric vehicle) batteries will grow at an unprecedented rate in China. Recycling them will bring twofold benefits – reducing the consumption of raw materials for producing...
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China to Expand Waste Import Ban
While many western cities and firms are scrambling to find solutions and workarounds for the mountains of waste plastic, unsorted paper, textile, and slag that can no longer be sent to China, the...
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Unspoken Crisis: Mounting Textile Waste in China
With an exploding urban population and a rising middle-class, China is rapidly increasing material use and consumption. Alongside its burgeoning economy is a proliferation of consumer waste. While most...
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