Prof. Wu Kaming and Dr. Zhang Jieying were interviewed by Chinadialogue on urban waste pickers in China and the book ‘The Life of Waste’.  The interview is published by Chinadialogue and then by Guardian. They share their research of unknown lives of Waste pickers who work  on the outskirts of Beijing, and their fieldwork to the village of Lengshui, 50km north of Beijing, home to a community of waste pickers. They also talk about recycling as an informal economy, field study and nostalgia for home in the interview. For details, please visit https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/9538-The-secret-lives-of-urban-waste-pickers and https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/10/china-secret-lives-urban-waste-pickers .