Dump Trash, Add Scavengers, Mix and Get a Big Mess – Howard French
From the New York Times (link): Song Tiping, a peasant from rural Jiangsu Province, and Bernie Kearsley-pratt, an Australian executive, would not at first glance seem to have much in common, and they...
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The city that is Britain’s dustbin – Hazel Parry and Simon Parry
A new wrinkle in the “China as Global Trash Receptacle” story from UK’s Daily Mail: “This is one of the most polluted towns in China – everyone who has come here says the same,” complains migrant...
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The great trash debate – various
The revelation by a minister in the UK earlier this week that the volume of Britain’s trash shipments to China have increased nearly 160-fold in the last decade prompted calls from the Liberal...
View ArticleVideo: Abandoned Poison
The following video from Sina won the 2006 Chinese DV Contest for environment protection. It tells us: “Two-thirds of the cities in China are filled with trash. According to reliable sources, there are...
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Photos: Garbage Floods the Three Gorges Dam
The recent floods in China, which have now killed more than 1200 people, have also swept an immense amount of trash to the Three Gorges Dam area, threatening to block the dam’s gates. The following...
View ArticleHow America’s Trash Becomes China’s Treasure
Bloomberg Businessweek has published a lengthy excerpt from contributor Adam Minter’s forthcoming book Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade, profiling a Chinese scrap metal...
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