Rural families in Inner Mongolia get ahead of the trash-sorting curve
(WorldNews China)

Garbage sorting has topped the agendas of China`s first-tier cities as landfills scramble to cope with ever-increasing waste. The logic behind it: the usually better-educated urban residents will adapt more easily when the practice of dumping all waste into one bin abruptly ends. But with efforts also picking up in a dozen remote Chinese villages near the border with Mongolia, officials have come to realize that frugality, celebrated as a top virtue among hundreds of...