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City on the way to better garbage sorting |
2019-07-04
Garbage bins settled at a residential estate in Longhua District. SD-Agencies
AS one of the 46 Chinese cities selected to require garbage sorting, Shenzhen recently strengthened measures to require residents to throw away their household garbage in designated places and allocated staff to supervise the sorting at a fixed time and location.
As of the first half of this year, a total of 805 residential compounds had removed tr
City mulls regulating garbage classification |
2019-06-13
Shenzhen is mulling regulating garbage classification to pave the way for fully implementing garbage sorting among residents across the city, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday, citing information from a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress on Tuesday.
Household garbage classification is at the top of the agenda of the city government this year. It is not easy to implement garbage
Shenzhen a pioneer in garbage sorting |
2019-06-11
In 1998, China began to pilot garbage sorting in eight cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen by installing labeled waste bins on the streets.
Up to now, Shenzhen has installed 24,000 recycling bins for used batteries and 12,000 bins for collecting old fluorescent lights across the populous city and employed professional teams to dispose of the hazardous waste. In 2018, Shenzhen recycled 72 tons of batteries and 1
SZ mulls citywide garbage classification |
2019-01-16
A measure that dispatches inspectors to housing estates to guide garbage classification at designated times each day will be promoted citywide this year, sznews.com reported yesterday, citing information released at the 30th session of the Sixth Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress on Monday.
The measure was adopted at selected housing estates last year that appoints one inspector in each estate to instruct