Environmental Justice

In cities, waste disposal and recycling relies on the labor of frontline workers - individual scavengers, small and medium-sized recycling stores, recyclers and cleaners. These workers provide…

Climate change makes extreme weather events more and more frequent. The impacts of these extreme weather events are disproportionately experienced across racial, gender, and class divides. In…

The recent China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment appears to prioritise labour and sustainability issues. But without thinking about environmental action beyond emissions and enacting…

Over many years, China has become the “world’s factory” and its industrial development has greatly increased employment opportunities. This has also been accompanied by the frequent…

Hong Kong’s “cardboard siege” is indicative of how complex the waste treatment problem is. Waste pickers in Hong Kong often rely on collecting cardboard waste and selling them on to recyclers…

Pollution has become a major health crisis in China. With industrial pollution as a significant contributing factor, many workers, especially rural migrant workers who have been exposed to some of the harshest working and living conditions over many years and denied the same rights and mechanisms to rectify their suffering

China has undergone dramatic economic changes since it implemented its reform and open policy in 1979.

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change.

Apple released its Environmental Responsibility Report Wednesday, an annual grandstanding effort that the company uses to position itself as a progressive, environmentally friendly company. Behind the scenes, though, the company undermines attempts to prolong the lifespan of its products. Apple's new moonshot plan is to make iPhones and computers entirely out of recycled materials by putting pressure on the recycling industry to innovate. But documents obtained by Motherboard using Freedom of Information requests show that Apple's current practices prevent recyclers from doing the most environmentally friendly thing they could do: Salvage phones and computers from the scrap heap.  

Just in the last month there have been two cases of environmental protests occurring in China. Around one thousand people protested on the streets of Yangjiang city, in Guangdong province, against the construction of an incinerator. And ten thousand  people protested against a chemical factory in Shangrao city, Jianxi province. The protesters in both cases battled with the police. As a result, many people were injured or arrested.