City legislators to supervise garbage sorting
Workers remove dry waste from a garbage terminal on Guyiyuan Road in Jiading District's Nanxiang Town.
An across-the-board supervision of garbage sorting from the end of this month till November has been announced by Shanghai People's Congress.
The city’s first garbage-sorting regulation is due to take effect on July 1.
Legislators of both Shanghai and district people’s congresses will carry out scheduled visits and secret investigations and also engage third parties to assess and analyze public participation in garbage sorting.
Government departments which will be responsible for implementing the regulation updated legislators on Thursday.
The housing management bureau, which has surveyed garbage-sorting infrastructure at the city’s over 9,000 residential complexes, said much work still needs to be done.
Half of the complexes with garbage terminals haven’t been modified according to the new regulation, the bureau said.
In addition, at 47 percent of the complexes, the garbage was being taken to sites outside the complex by property management workers before being disposed of.
The bureau said property management firms who violate the regulation could face restrictions in bidding for management projects.
The greenery authorities said the number of their trucks transporting wet waste, mainly kitchen waste, will be increased to 924 from the current 781 by the end of the year, and the number of recycling service points and recyclable waste transfer stations will be doubled from the current 3,962 and 99, respectively.
All 215 subdistrict and town governments will be rated according to their progress in garbage sorting, and ratings will be made public at the end of June and December, the authorities said.
The ecology and environment bureau said it had included all garbage-disposal facilities in its key list of companies under pollution supervision, and none of the garbage-burning facilities examined in the first three months of the year had been found to be polluting beyond the standards.
The bureau has also started to work with the greenery authorities to transport hazardous waste, such as used fluorescent tubes and paint buckets, in special vehicles and have it disposed of by qualified companies. Shanghai is the first city in the country to do this, the bureau said.
