Sort your garbage, get a reward
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SHANGHAI will add more neighborhood garbage sorting and transit stations this year to help promote sorting and separating, the head of the city’s environment watchdog said yesterday.
The new stations will have equipment for cleaners to sort and pack garbage as well as clean bottles, said Zhang Quan, the head of the city’s environmental protection bureau.
Staff will also ensure that the sorted garbage remains separated as it is transported from neighborhoods on to larger treatment centers, Zhang said.
The Shanghai government has listed the promotion of sorting and separating garbage as one of its major tasks this year.
“Garbage sorting remained one of the weaknesses of the city,” Shanghai Party Secretary Han Zheng has told a plenary meeting at the annual session of National People’s Congress.
Neighborhood waste stations will be upgraded to support the initiative, Zhang said. Currently, they are too small and lack the necessary equipment, he told Shanghai Daily.
The program requires household garbage to be separated into kitchen waste, harmful waste and dry waste.
Sorting helps waste management dispose, or re-use trash more efficiently and safely.
Some incentives such as small gifts should be introduced to help to change the habits of local residents, Zhang said.
About two million household will be added to the “green account” system which sees incentives for better waste management handed out by neighborhood committees. That will bring the total number to four million by year-end.
The city will also promote waste recycling at construction sites to deal with the growing amount of material from the building boom and the campaign to demolish illegal structures.
Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong has said that the city planned to demolish more than 50 million square meters of illegal structures this year.
Many materials such as bricks, gravel and some timber can be recycled for future construction. The rest will be separated and removed.
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