Textile recycling initiatives by companies and individuals are reducing Shanghai's huge pile of waste.

There are only two mountains in Shanghai. The first is a popular travel destination for locals in the Sheshan National Tourist Resort in Songjiang district. The other has the ignominy of being a mountain of trash.

Shanghai has a daily waste output of 22,000 tons, and about 70 percent of it is channeled to the Laogang Landfill, which occupies 4.1 million square meters of space near the East China Sea in Shanghai's Pudong New Area. The result is a massive pile of trash that stands as an indication of a problem that requires urgent attention.