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Chinese Environmental News

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Cockroaches to solve China’s kitchen waste problem?
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

The Chinese produce some 60 million tonnes of kitchen waste a year. Some of it is burnt, some is composted, but most ends up in landfills where it threatens to morph into toxic sludge as it mixes with other types of garbage. Chinese farmers ...

Valuable rubbish

New crackdown on smuggling waste into China
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Che Zhongqing can tell you a thing or two about the price of rubbish. For more than 10 years she has collected waste paper, plastic and metals from households in northeast Beijing. She keeps the figures for different goods in different years in ...

Green beginnings

State broadcaster takes on state chemicals firm
May 4, 2018 (WiC 407)

On April 16 the Chinese government officially launched its new Ministry of Ecology and Environment – a larger, more powerful version of the former Environmental Protection ministry. The next day, state broadcaster CCTV aired a 30-minute ...

Is China planning on a 1,000km tunnel to turn Xinjiang into California?
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

Since the mid-1800s Chinese scholars have dreamed of bringing water to Xinjiang and making the desert bloom. The first was Lin Zexu, an imperial official who was banished to the arid western region during the First Opium War; later came Zhu ...

Delivery firms try to cut down on waste boxes from online sales
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

In July JD.com celebrated its birthday in the usual way: running a sales campaign on its website to rival Alibaba’s Singles’ Day. According to China Daily, it sold 700 million items during the sales spree. But as we reported in WiC347, a ...

A load of old rubbish

News of China’s ban on trash imports ripples around the globe
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Wang Jiuliang has made a reputation for himself as a producer of documentaries: his films are some of the quickest to go viral in social media but also the first to be purged by Chinese censors. Take Plastic Kingdom, a 2014 ...

Flood season remains chaotic in China
Jul 14, 2017 (WiC 374)

People don’t talk about China having a monsoon the way they speak of the summer downpours in India or Southeast Asia. But China’s rainy season is every bit as dramatic – and deadly. In fact, so far, this year torrential rains have ...

Why Hongkongers aren’t showing enough gratitude to Heyuan residents
Jan 27, 2017 (WiC 353)

The state of Lesotho is surrounded on all sides by South Africa. Normally the two countries get on well enough, but last year Lesotho suffered from a serious drought and people began feeling a little resentful towards their encircling neighbour. ...

Wealth but not health?

China starts the new year again choking in heavy smog
Jan 6, 2017 (WiC 350)

When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared war on pollution two years ago, he described it as a deadly enemy, and promised “we must fight it with all our might”. Xi Jinping, China’s president and Li’s senior colleague, has made similar ...

More bad news for China’s coalminers
Sep 30, 2016 (WiC 341)

“I have repeatedly said that green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver.” So insisted Xi Jinping in his opening address to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this month. The evening before, China and the US had ...

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