This year, Shanghai will promote the special update of more than 3,000 domestic waste sorting points and build 300 Huimin recycling service points!

Today, the Office of the Joint Conference on Promoting the Classification and Reduction of Domestic Waste in Shanghai and the Hongkou District People’s Government of Shanghai jointly held the theme activity of promoting the classification of domestic waste in Shanghai. Shanghai Eco-cultural Association, catering and cooking industry association, express delivery industry association and city appearance and environmental sanitation industry association jointly launched the "green and low-carbon life participation" initiative.

According to the introduction of the Municipal Bureau of Greening and City Appearance, this activity also announced the publicity and education base and experience route of garbage classification, launched the special action of "100 million" to continuously optimize the voluntary service of garbage classification in Shanghai, and released the public welfare propaganda film of garbage classification (wonderful video, please slide to the end of the article to watch). See ↓

Over the past year, the compliance rate of domestic waste classification in Shanghai’s communities and units has remained stable at over 95%, and citizens’ satisfaction with waste classification has reached 96.5% (the results of about 150,000 people’s evaluation surveys conducted by relevant media);

The classified amount of wet garbage accounts for 35% of the total dry and wet garbage (the classified amount of recyclable materials is 7,698 tons/day, the classified amount of harmful waste is 2 tons/day, the classified amount of wet garbage is 9,443 tons/day, and the cleared amount of dry garbage is 17,264 tons/day), and the recycling rate of domestic garbage reaches 43%.

The total capacity of domestic waste incineration and wet waste resource treatment exceeds 36,000 tons/day, and the primary domestic waste keeps zero landfill.

How are these figures actually realized?

Is the community delivery point "old and inconvenient"? They do this …

Before and after the implementation of "Regulations on the Management of Domestic Waste in Shanghai" in 2019, the drop points and garbage houses in Shanghai communities have undergone a round of renovation to meet the requirements of garbage classification. Since last year, many citizens have found that the drop-in points and garbage houses in their own communities have been upgraded again. Not only have they installed hand-washing basins, automatic deodorizers and induction doors to make it easier to throw garbage, but they have also made three-dimensional greening on the walls and roofs or solar photovoltaic panels to make the garbage houses more "eye-catching".

Since the implementation of "Work Plan for Continuously Optimizing the Whole-process Domestic Waste Classification System in Shanghai" last year, Shanghai has comprehensively promoted the transformation and upgrading of domestic waste distribution points, and a number of excellent residential areas with excellent hardware, pleasant environment and distinctive characteristics have emerged.

Ruihong Phase II Residential Area of Jiaxing Road Street in Hongkou District explores the deep integration of human settlements and green and low carbon. On the basis of realizing the "Five Refinements" standard of boutique residential areas, it adds environmentally-friendly designs such as parent-child hand washing tables and vertical greening, so that "garbage sorting" can be close, ornamental and temperature-sensitive. The "Shanghai Community" in Jiangpu Road Street, Yangpu District adheres to the concept of co-governance and sharing, and extensively solicits opinions from residents’ committees and property parties. "People’s livelihood" follows the "people’s voice". Through the construction of boutique communities, residents’ trading experience is improved, the public environment of communities is beautified, and the difficulties in garbage decoration are solved.

This year, the city will continue to build more than 300 boutique communities and promote the special update of more than 3,000 classified delivery points, so that the optimization and upgrading results will benefit a wider range.

Express packaging, waste clothes "more and more"? They do this …

With the continuous improvement of residents’ living standards, more and more people enjoy the convenience brought by express delivery and take-away, but at the same time, many citizens also find that there are more and more recyclable items such as paper express boxes and plastic fillers that are "a pity to abandon and never be used again".

Recently, a WeChat applet named "Hushang Recycling" provided a channel for the recycling of these recyclables. After a simple authorization registration, citizens can inquire about the information of the surrounding recycling service points, the arrangement of recycling activity days, flexibly choose the appropriate time to trade, or place orders directly through small programs in areas that support reserved recycling.

In December 2023, this small program was piloted in some streets and towns in Changning District. At present, it has gradually expanded to cover 16 districts in the city, and the overall promotion and use is good. Based on the five-level working mechanism of "district-street-district main enterprise-neighborhood committee-volunteer", Changning District actively mobilized garbage sorting volunteers, launched the promotion of "Hushang Recycling" WeChat applet at home, and gradually formed a normalized publicity channel for the theme day of "Hushang Recycling" to take root in the community and serve residents.

In April this year, Changning District held 79 recycling days, and the number of orders placed by residents reached 22,384. Relying on the municipal public service platform for recycling materials, the applet integrates the service resources of recycling enterprises in various districts, aiming at providing citizens with more flexible, convenient and better recycling services.

In addition to this channel, last year, the city also built 32 demonstration recyclable transfer stations with one district and one product, which provided comprehensive recycling services for the benefit of the people. The recycling transfer station in Quyang Road Street revolves around the concept of 15-minute community life circle for convenience, and sets up 24-hour intelligent recycling equipment along the street, organically combining all-weather recycling for the benefit of the people, green and low-carbon science popularization, recycling sorting and packaging, and creating a new fashion position.

On the basis of last year’s pilot project, this year Shanghai has defined the construction standards of Huimin recycling service points, and it is estimated that 300 will be built by the end of the year. At that time, not only the residents of the community, but also the surrounding merchants can also trade and sell recyclables at these Huimin recycling service points.

Fine classification of recyclables "no conditions? What’s the use? " They do this …

Recently, Jing ‘an Greening and City Appearance Bureau and Office Administration Bureau issued an initiative of "striving to be a practitioner, advocate and supervisor of fine classification of recyclable materials" to government officials in Jing ‘an.

The recyclable containers in the centralized office of Jing ‘an District are specially customized with the theme of "bottle gathering+paper collection", which are finely classified according to cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles and waste paper sheets, and are made of acrylic transparent panel materials, so that people can see the effect of fine classification at a glance.

Fine classification and resource utilization are closely related. The former promotes waste reduction, while the latter realizes resource increase. With the continuous deepening of waste classification in Shanghai, many citizens call for learning from cities with better waste classification and dividing recyclables more finely. In recent years, Shanghai has also continued to promote the pilot project of fine sorting of recyclable materials. In addition to government offices, parks, public squares, municipal roads, shopping malls, etc., there are also various types of specially designed fine sorting containers for recyclable materials.

In the follow-up, Shanghai will also build a model area for fine classification of domestic waste in important public places such as the First Memorial Hall of the Communist Party of China and Jing ‘an Temple business district, showing the new fashion face of waste classification. At the same time, Shanghai continues to explore the utilization of resources. In the construction of the garbage sorting theme park in Putuo District, recycled products such as recycled plates and recycled glass products made in tetra pak were used to create the park landscape.

This year, Shanghai will also make great efforts in deep resource utilization, and carry out pilot recycling of disposable lunch boxes, tetra pak and other special resources in Jing ‘an and Xuhui, and carry out pilot construction of fly ash washing line project in Laogang eco-environmental protection base to achieve new breakthroughs in resource utilization.

In order to further reflect the good results achieved by the municipal domestic waste classification work in the past year, the office of the joint meeting of the municipal domestic waste classification and reduction promotion work produced a public welfare propaganda film, which invited actor Hugh to appear and issued a green and low-carbon environmental protection initiative.

Video duration: 30 seconds

The public welfare propaganda film depicts every walk of life in Shanghai actively practicing garbage sorting, further guiding the general public to devote themselves to garbage sorting with greater enthusiasm, and continuously contributing to the improvement of social civilization.

Data: Municipal Bureau of Greening and Appearance.

Original title: "Shanghai will promote the special update of more than 3,000 domestic waste sorting points this year and build 300 Huimin recycling service points! 》

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