11 May 2021
High winds are reported to have broken a glass-bottomed bridge in China, leaving a man clinging to a handrail above a 91-metre drop – but just how safe is glass as a bridge-building material?
10 May 2021
Countries in the European Union should be legally required to recycle critical metals in electronic waste, a report has found. The proposed law would be unprecedented and could drive countries outside the EU to follow suit
1 March 2019
Last year China banned imports of foreign waste, temporarily disrupting US recycling efforts. In the meantime, some US communities are burning their waste
3 January 2018
China is giving Western nations a headache with a ban on imports of "foreign garbage" to recycle, but the move is also creating a Chinese cardboard shortage
