China Waste Facility Protests Escalate as Residents Block Roads and Force Project Cancellation in Hefei

China Waste Facility Protests Escalate as Residents Block Roads and Force Project Cancellation in Hefei

According to the BBC, on the night of June 27, residents of Hefei, the capital of Anhui province in eastern China, poured into the streets to stop construction of a massive waste transfer facility planned within walking distance of schools and apartment blocks housing 100,000 people. By midnight, facing a sit-in that had paralyzed one […]