A brilliant city for garbage sorting
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Shanghai鈥檚 largest downtown residential community has implemented the city鈥檚 garbage-sorting regulations with new garbage rooms, management and volunteer services.
Zhongyuan Liangwan Cheng (Brilliant City), housing about 50,000 people beside Suzhou Creek, has been listed as one of Putuo District鈥檚 model communities for its waste classification campaign, said Wang Yuanhua, director of the Yichuan Road Subdistrict.
The neighborhood, on the former site of one of the city鈥檚 most notorious shantytowns, had faced great challenges in implementing the regulation. The 11,599 households create about 100 tons of garbage every day. It also features a large proportion of tenants and 196 community stores.
Residents and business owners used to dump unsorted garbage in nearly 300 large bins. Although property management cleaned the bins many times a day, the dumping sites were dirty and smelly, said Gao Baoyu.
Gao, a 75-year-old woman, is one of the community鈥檚 garbage-sorting volunteers. Between 7am and 9am every day, she guides residents to properly sort their waste.
鈥淢y age and white hair make most residents reluctant to reject my advice,鈥 Gao said.
In June, the bins were replaced by 26 garbage rooms featuring separate bins for residual, kitchen, recyclable and hazardous waste.
The construction of the rooms was challenging because some landlords thought they would damage the feng shui of their homes. Some even believed no garbage bins should be visible from apartment windows, Wang said. Others feared the garbage rooms would encroach on parking or green space.
Several demonstration rooms were set up and the neighborhood committee sought suggestions on their location.
Some residents then applied to build additional garbage rooms near their apartment buildings for convenience, Wang said.
The subdistrict also reached agreement with the business operators in the community to offer door-to-door garbage collection several times a day if the waste was properly sorted beforehand.
Across Putuo, some 95.5 percent of the district鈥檚 communities had reached the garbage-sorting standard by the end of October compared to none during an initial inspection in April, said Lin Kaiyong, deputy director of Putuo鈥檚 greenery and public sanitation bureau.
More than 474 tons of kitchen waste was being collected on a daily basis. The bureau originally anticipated 332 tons.
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