Sanitation trucks play a vital role in municipal waste management around the world. They matter especially in China. The ...

For decades, China was the world’s primary destination for waste. Starting in the 1980s, the country imported massive volumes of scrap materials to convert them into raw inputs for its booming ...

For more than 30 years, imports of recycled goods have fueled China’s manufacturing boom. On Wednesday, the government announced that it’d had enough. By the end of the year, it told the World Trade ...