Where is the bottleneck of domestic waste classification?

In the 2018 Beijing Public Behavior Civilization Index released on July 29, the score of “handling waste sorting” declined, down 9.4% from 2016. Around 2010, Beijing promoted waste sorting in the city. In the past eight years, although the government departments have been working hard, the waste sorting work has progressed slowly. The cultivation of classification consciousness and habits is stuck there? On the 30th, the reporter visited some communities.

Classification and standard community garbage mixing and transportation

On the unit building of Building No. 9 of Nanlu District, Ganluyuan, Chaoyang District, a brand of “Classification of Domestic Wastes” is numbered “073”. Not far from the garbage area, there are 3 garbage bins. The leftmost one is the green “food waste” bucket, and the next two gray trash cans mainly put “other garbage”. On the side of the trash can, there are piles of renovated building materials, scrap wood, and small cartons.
Why not sort garbage as required? "I just started to take it seriously. Later I found that nobody cares. Everyone can see which one is easy to throw, and throw it." A girl who throws garbage told reporters.
An electric tricycle is placed not far from the trash can, and two "other garbage" buckets are waiting to be taken away. The reporter opened one of the barrels, which was mixed with kitchen waste such as peel, leaves and leftovers.
“A few years ago, I said that there was a garbage classification, but no one would manage it later.” In the maritime warehouse community in Dongcheng District, Ms. You, who has lived for more than ten years, told reporters that just a few months ago, downstairs. There are also green, blue, and gray trash cans, but now, you can only see the gray trash can labeled "Other Garbage."
The reporter found that, as Ms. You said, most of the residents in the maritime warehouse community had only two gray trash cans downstairs. The reporter walked over half of the community and found a label under the residential building that was “recyclable”. The garbage bin has a blue trash can, but the bucket contains a mixture of waste paper, plastic bottles, food waste, and garbage bags.

If there is a problem in one link, it will be abandoned.

“We have been doing garbage sorting all the time, but the results are not ideal.” Xie Xinyuan, a volunteer of the zero-waste alliance, a social organization that has long been concerned about garbage, said frankly that they have been rethinking this issue.
For example, in the process of collecting and transporting kitchen waste, Xie Xinyuan did not completely "do not classify, do not accept shipments" and "do not classify, can not enter the factory." “The kitchen driver saw the plastic packaging in the kitchen waste, and did not refuse to accept it; the back-end kitchen waste composting factory saw that there was plastic packaging in the kitchen waste from the kitchen, and there was no rejection. This is invisible. Indulge in the classification." Xie Xinyuan also suggested that information disclosure is also very important. The route of garbage collection by garbage trucks, the amount of garbage, and the data should be disclosed to the residents, so that they can be supervised, resulting in a sense of trust and responsibility.
Liu Quan, general manager of Beijing Tianlong Tiantianjie Recycling Resources Recycling Co., Ltd., who is responsible for the classification of wastes in Donghua City, believes that it is easy to color the trash cans, but it is difficult to cultivate classification awareness. The lack of awareness of household waste classification and the lag in the construction of municipal waste separation facilities have also led to the resistance of domestic waste classification. “There are not as many trash cans as possible, and the simpler the operation, the better.” He believes that over the years, residents’ classification awareness has improved a lot, but consciousness has turned into action, but it needs to be collected, placed, transported, and processed. The four links will be exerted. The government's guidance, service system, and feedback system should all be kept up. Any problem in the link may lead to abandonment.
In addition, relevant legislation should also keep up, "restrict the production standards of packaging enterprises from the source, and at the same time constrain the behavior of garbage producers. The protection of the law can better constrain the behavior of all parties." Liu Quan said.

Enlightenment from guiding 6 years to develop classification habits

Into the Jinsongzhong community, the "blue-green gray" three-color barrel disappeared, replaced by 24 groups, 48 ​​vats, specifically collecting unclassified other garbage. As for the kitchen waste and recyclable garbage, the residents come out from home every day and go in and out of the “green cottage” in the community to do the “business” of garbage sorting.
"Today 0.95 kg, score 1.9, now there are 43 points in Cary." "Green Cabin", the staff used a "smart green card" on the POS machine, the resident Liu Derong's kitchen waste instantly became 1.9 integral. Liu Derong said that his family of three people, Nissan garbage more than one kilogram, like many residents every day, "other garbage" she directly thrown in the bucket on the side of the road, the kitchen waste is sent to the "green cottage" for points, redemption gifts .
Teaching thousands of residents to learn garbage sorting, Jinsongzhong community spent 6 years.
In 2011, Jinsong began to pilot the classification of domestic waste, but the classification work was not effective. In 2012, Jinsong Street introduced social management, and Beijing First Smart Environmental Sanitation Development Co., Ltd. settled in the community to provide specialized garbage sorting services.
“We introduced food waste to exchange points, redeem gifts, attract residents to participate, and develop the habit of classification.” Li Zhen, general manager of the company, introduced recycling, collection management, point management, data analysis, and wisdom sanitation in Jinsong At the command center, every step of the garbage disposal has an established monitoring and management system. Nowadays, including Jinsongzhong Community, Jinsong has 13 communities and nearly 60 communities to achieve full coverage of garbage. The daily waste generated by residents is 15 tons, and the separation rate is about 9% to 10%, 55,000. Household residents benefit.
It is a slow and memorable task to guide residents to carry out garbage sorting. Li Zhen said that the Jinsongzhong community has been used for 6 years, and other communities need to adapt to it for a long time. The classification of waste requires the responsibility of all the subjects in the whole society, and for a long time, the classification can become a habit.