Earth Day Interview: China is 'Green Like Dollars, Not Like the Environment'

For Earth Day, we met up with Shanghai-based journalist Adam Minter (blog, Twitter) in New York's Central Park. Minter covers the Chinese environment and other topics for a variety of publications, including The Atlantic and Slate. He is currently working on a book for Bloomsbury Press — entitled Wasted: Inside the Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in American Trash — which will be "an insider’s account of the hidden world of globalized recycling, from the US to China, and points in between." We talked to Minter about China's massive recycling industry and what China and the rest of the world can learn from each other environmentally.