Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Technology Center's first research is to try to treat and clean used cooking oil.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will buy 2,000 tons of gutter oil from China in mid-July to transform it into aviation fuel later, Xinhuanet reported Tuesday.
Aquatech International Corp won a contract to install a wastewater recycling system for a concentrated brine treatment plant in China.
The State Council agreed to revive financial incentives for consumers to trade in their passenger cars to help increase demand in the world's biggest vehicle market.
Seventy percent of renewable resources in 55 cities are being collected for recycling, up from the 40 percent in 2006.
China aims to greatly increase the proportion of recycled nonferrous metals used in its industries.
In many countries the need to recycle is drummed into you. There are recycling boxes in every classroom and beside every desk in most work places. In China, it is not part of office culture unless you can make money from it and most individuals don't think twice about throwing something away.
China Metal Recycling Holdings Ltd, the nation's biggest scrap metal recycler, plans to step up domestic acquisitions as the global economic recovery reduces supplies from overseas.
After six years' unswerving endeavor, Zhenan, a county in Shaanxi Province, has yielded remarkable fruits.
Recycling scrap metals is a way to reduce Chinese steel mills' dependence on imported ore and ease pressures from the surging iron ore prices, industry experts said.
German steel recycling firm Cronimet Group on Friday inaugurated a plant in Shanghai in a bid to tap into China's potentially huge scrap steel market.
Beijing plans to involve 300 community rubbish recycling stations in a "Renewable Resource Recycling Day" this year, to encourage people to recycle rubbish near their homes.
Beijing plans to involve 300 community rubbish recycling stations in a "Renewable Resource Recycling Day" this year, to encourage people to recycle rubbish near their homes.
Editor's note: Hewlett-Packard Co (HP), the international IT giant, has been a leader in efforts to recycle its electronic wastes and protect the environment during its operations around the world, including China.
Every time I take out the trash, I am made more aware of the city's growing rubbish crisis.
China is ahead of the world in the recycling of major non-ferrous metals and it was an area in which there had been rapid development, said participants at an international forum which concluded Monday in eastern China's Jiangxi province.
Officials in Guiyu of Guangdong province were baffled last fall when "60 Minutes" reported that the village of Guiyu was drowning in toxic e-waste.
China's draft recycling law has abandoned a progression price markup system on household use of water, electricity and gas because of its impracticality.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, started a five-day session Monday to review draft laws on food safety and recycling among other issues.