Volunteers on lookout for littering
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Drivers are being recruited as volunteers in Jiading’s campaign against littering from cars.
Throwing garbage from moving cars has been identified as a major problem in Shanghai.
Experiments have shown that an apple thrown from a car traveling at 70 kilometers per hour can shatter a windscreen. If the car is going faster than that, a discarded apple could go through windscreen with possibly fatal results.
Every day more than 40 tons of litter are collected from Shanghai’s expressways and elevated roads. The workload is heavy for more than 300 sanitation workers, and some of them have been injured in car accidents.
“Recruiting volunteers can expand monitoring scale; it is also the most effective way for the drivers to get self-monitoring,” a government official said.
One volunteer surnamed Lu filmed a cigarette end and a ball of paper being thrown out of a taxi in front of him while waiting for a red light.
Lu submitted the video to the related government department.
“Now that I’m a volunteer I pay more attention to such violations,” Lu said.
Drivers can be fined 200 yuan (US$33) for such violations while it could cost passengers 50 yuan.
Traffic police confirmed that videos taken by volunteers can be used as evidence.
Once the video is approved as effective evidence, volunteers are qualified to receive a reward of 100 yuan.
In addition, the police have installed surveillance cameras along Tacheng Road, Xincheng Road and the Jiahang Expressway.
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