Chinese protest against waste-to-energy plant project

When residents of Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province found signs that a waste-to-energy plant project had already started near their homes, protests broke out on June 28, 2019. For seven days people took to the streets to protest the garbage-burning project in their backyards. The local government announced “the project would not start without the approval from the public” on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. Waste-to-energy plants are an answer to China’s land-consuming method of garbage…