China has for years been struggling to deal with the rubbish its 1.4 billion citizens generate China, one of the world's biggest users of plastic, has unveiled a major plan to reduce single-use ...
China is forcing restaurants, e-commerce platforms and delivery services to report their use of single-use plastics. The Ministry of Commerce said it had established a nationwide system for ...
This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. After importing nearly half of the planet’s plastic recyclables for three decades, China barred the import of most ...