Shanghai is sorting its trash one chicken bone at a time in China's first serious attempt at cutting the amount of garbage headed for landfills.
In this July 22, 2019, photo, Zhu Xiaohua, a garbage sorting volunteer, watches as a resident pours water into a garbage disposal site in a residential community in Shanghai. China’s biggest city has dived headfirst into a trash sorting program that marks the country’s first serious attempt at cutting the amount of garbage headed for landfills nationwide.
From choreographed dances with trash bins to fliers sent to 6.8 million families and a scorecard for participating neighborhoods, efforts to roll out the system en masse have reflected the Communist Party’s all-encompassing approach to rules enforcement. On a recent day in downtown Shanghai, 67-year-old Zhang Guihua stood in front of an apartment complex’s trash disposal area with bins for the four new trash categories.
One strategy for identification that has been spreading online is to think of the trash in terms of pigs: Trash is wet if pigs can eat it, and dry if not; trash is hazardous if it can kill pigs, but recyclable if it can be sold to earn cash to buy more pigs. “The Chinese government has a strong ability to act,” Du said of the program’s strong enforcement. “Its ability to concentrate on doing big things is stronger than in Western countries.”
Tang Guiqin, a 70-year-old retiree, said it was both natural and convenient for her and her family to learn the new rules. But when she went to throw a glass bottle, she discovered that her neighborhood was lacking bins for both hazardous and recyclable materials.
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