Trash Talk

Shanghai enacts its new garbage regulation on July 1. So how do we correctly discard our trash? Where does everything go after we bin it? How are locals responding to these new rules? And what kind of a difference will it make to our daily lives, and the planet? You'll learn all this, and more, right here as we Trash Talk.
Shanghai enacts its new garbage regulation on July 1. So how do we correctly discard our trash? Where does everything go after we bin it? How are locals responding to these new rules? And what kind of a difference will it make to our daily lives, and the planet? You'll learn all this, and more, right here as we Trash Talk.
Shanghai steps up trash-sorting crackdown to secure progress - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Shanghai steps up trash-sorting crackdown to secure progress

The beefed-up crackdown in Shanghai follows the resurgence of garbage sorting problems at some local supermarkets, wet markets and transportation hubs.
Residents adhere to city's trash-sorting campaign - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Residents adhere to city's trash-sorting campaign

Over 95 percent of working units and residential complexes qualified in the trash-sorting performance, according to the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau.
Garbage sorting becomes a habit for Hongkou residents after Xi's visit - China In Focus News
In Focus

Garbage sorting becomes a habit for Hongkou residents after Xi's visit

Garbage sorting has become a habit for residents of Shanghai's downtown Hongkou District, which President Xi Jinping visited in 2018 and called the campaign a "new fashion."
Detailed trash-sorting guideline issued for Shanghai hotels - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Detailed trash-sorting guideline issued for Shanghai hotels

A detailed guideline on trash sorting involving Shanghai's hospitality industry has been released to regulate waste-sorting practices at hotels across the city.
Cultivating a new habit: Shanghai's sustained enthusiasm for a greener way of life - China Opinion
Opinion

Cultivating a new habit: Shanghai's sustained enthusiasm for a greener way of life

Three years after Shanghai established garbage-sorting regulations, residents are getting used to separating household and residual waste, thus reducing the city's carbon impact.
Trash-sorting becomes way of life in Shanghai despite pandemic - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Trash-sorting becomes way of life in Shanghai despite pandemic

Shanghai has made remarkable progress in its trash-sorting campaign since its garbage classification regulations went into effect on July 1, 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
The use of useless: Showcasing trash in a new light - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

The use of useless: Showcasing trash in a new light

Different types of waste have been given new life and are on display at the "The Use of Useless – Recycled and Eco-friendly Exhibition" that kicked off at Yangpu Park on Wednesday.
'Ploggers' help clean city on World Cleanup Day - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

'Ploggers' help clean city on World Cleanup Day

About 400 people participated in a recent plogging (jogging while picking up trash) campaign across Shanghai, collecting 131 kilograms of trash.
Trash-sorting campaign 'makes remarkable progress,' officials say - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Trash-sorting campaign 'makes remarkable progress,' officials say

Recyclable and hazardous waste collection improves, garbage sorting by hospitals, universities and colleges 'excellent.'
Residents 'mostly satisfied' with city's garbage-sorting system - Shanghai Metro News
Metro

Residents 'mostly satisfied' with city's garbage-sorting system

Some hospitals, colleges and public hubs need to improve their waste-sorting standards.
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