Representatives of trash-sorting volunteers make a promise to increase efforts to get citizens fully engaged in garbage classification yesterday. Sun Yuchen
Shenzhen officially unveiled a campaign called “Green Graduation Season” yesterday during a ceremony held in Shenzhen Adolescent Activity Center in Futian District to further promote garbage classification and low-carbon lifestyle in the city’s universities and colleges.
The campaign is one of the four key tasks set up for the city’s garbage classification volunteer service team this year, which was announced at the ceremony.
As graduation season comes near, recycling events and flea markets will be organized to promote reusing items that graduates might discard when they leave campus.
The campaign also plans to require each university student to join volunteer teams to guide garbage classification at least once to raise their awareness.
In addition to promoting garbage classification in universities, Shenzhen will also enhance building volunteer teams for garbage classification, create incentive mechanisms and design waste classification-themed events near World Environment Day, Shenzhen Waste Reduction Day and so on, to further promote the concept of garbage classification and let it become a daily routine for more citizens, according to the key tasks.
During the ceremony, representatives of trash-sorting volunteers from districts, social organizations and schools also made a promise to increase efforts to guide citizens to classify garbage correctly.
Liu Peiyan from Shenzhen Polytechnic was among the representatives. He said that the school now has over 24,000 registered student volunteers. The school has also organized activities to promote and guide garbage classification at key venues such as canteens and dormitories to encourage students to jointly build a green and low-carbon campus.
The ceremony, organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau and Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, is also an event marking the upcoming World Environment Day that falls on June 5.
Shenzhen implemented mandatory trash-sorting rules Sept. 1, 2020.