Waste Management Booming
Several sculptures made from cans, tires and plastic bottles (display) around a recyclable transfer center in Shanghai last year. The idea of making sculptures with trash is to make people aware that trash can be useful when (sort) properly.
It was in 2018, when President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of trash classification, the initiative (倡议) started to get on the fast track. The question "What kind of trash are you carrying?" became a popular joke when Shanghai enforced a law that household waste is required to be sorted four categories: recyclables, kitchen, hazardous (危险的) and residual waste. many people doubted it initially, the trash sorting program has achieved great success. Moreover, in the (propose) for the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the Central Committee said the country should speed up the building of waste recycling systems.
Besides the efforts made by the government, many companies are entering the trash separation and recycling market. Huazhan Environment, high-tech company in Jiangsu province, launched a new brand, Mr. Cat in English, selling intelligent trash stations and bins to communities. (equip)with cameras, sensors and screens, the smart trash stations are (interact) and help people (reasonable) deal with different kinds of trash. They can also alert waste transportation companies when bins are full.
