Chinese restaurant probed after challenging customers to eat 108 dumplings

A restaurant in southwestern China is under investigation after daring customers to eat over 100 spicy dumplings in exchange for a free meal...

Alarming video shows how Mount Everest became ‘world’s highest garbage dump’

A video showing garbage piling up at a campsite on Mount Everest has drawn attention on social media. Everest Today, a portal dedicated to c...

These plastic-hungry fungi in China might just be the key to solving the world’s waste

Dr. Peter Mortimer, a South African mycologist, has been studying fungi in China’s Yunnan province for nearly 12 years. Last year, he and ...

Filipino Engineer Uses Recycled Plastic Waste to Create Chairs for Schoolchildren

Filipino engineer Winchester Lemen is a mechanical engineer from the southern Philippines and runs Envirotech Waste Recycling to turn plasti...

Chinese Factory Uses 1 Billion Cockroaches to Eat 55 Tons of Food Waste a Day

A factory in eastern China is raising one billion cockroaches to help process tons of food waste every day. The plant, located in Jinan, Sha...

Chinese Company Caught Spraying 3,000 Tons of Acidic Waste on Public Streets

A drug company in China was fined and forced to shut down after spraying over 3,000 tons of highly-concentrated liquid waste on the streets ...

Pakistani, Chinese Scientists Discover ‘Plastic-Eating’ Fungus in Islamabad Garbage Dump

A recent discovery by a team of scientists from China and Pakistan has the potential to revolutionize plastic waste management for good. Ac...

How South Korea Reduced Food Waste By 300 TONS a Day

South Korea has managed to reduce food waste in amounts other parts of the world can only imagine accomplishing for now. In Seoul alone, th...