On May 19, the website of Beijing Bureau of statistics released the report card of the second anniversary of waste classification. The article introduced that the Municipal Bureau of statistics carried out a survey on the awareness and current situation of waste classification of urban and rural residents in 16 districts of the city in April 2022, involving 3210 residents.
The survey results show that after the second anniversary of the implementation of the Beijing Municipal Regulations on the administration of domestic waste, residents’ lives have undergone positive changes. 97.2% of the respondents believe that the garbage classification work in their community (Village) is better than that before the implementation of the regulations. During the field visit, the reporter found that benefiting from the frequent promotion of various publicity activities, many residents began to develop the habit of conscious classification, and can more accurately identify various waste types, and the living environment has also been effectively improved.
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The report card shows that in the five surveys conducted since November 2020, the participation rate of residents’ domestic waste classification has reached and stabilized at more than 98.0%, and reached 99.4% in April 2022, an increase of 26.4 percentage points compared with January 2020 before the implementation of the regulations.
Accurate and practical guidance and publicity are indispensable for obtaining high scores in residents’ participation rate. According to the report card, Beijing innovated the methods of “Party member community check-in” bucket station duty and accurate household publicity and guidance to mobilize the enthusiasm of residents to participate in waste classification.
Congcong (a pseudonym) of residents in a community in Changping District said that when the regulations were implemented in 2020, people in the community “shouted everywhere with big speakers” every day to infiltrate the garbage classification publicity of residents in the community.
The survey shows that 91.2% of the respondents said that the community (Village) they live in has classified instructors or volunteers on duty at the bucket station, and 81.8% of the respondents said that the community (Village) they live in has carried out household publicity and guidance.
In addition, Beijing has organized and promoted garbage classification publicity activities in many places. For example, at the beginning of this year, Dongcheng District launched a publicity campaign with the theme of “waste in 2022 of the Winter Olympic Games should be turned into treasure and classified more environmentally friendly”. Fengtai District has also organized and carried out party building activities of “brave breakthrough in waste classification” and “waste classification first”, so as to make residents aware of the necessity and urgency of waste classification.
At present, “garbage classification” and “garbage not landing” have become the living habits of Beijing citizens.
“At the beginning of the classification, my wife and grandson attached great importance to it and urged me every day, but I was always confused.” “But not now,” said Ms. Zhou, a resident of a community in Tiantongyuan Now she always divides the garbage at home first, and then drops it into the bucket downstairs.
Ms. Zhang, a staff member of a domestic waste sorting post station in Changping District, told reporters that since the implementation of the regulations, she went to the post station to assist in the publicity of waste sorting, explain waste sorting knowledge to residents every day and help them distinguish domestic waste. “At the beginning, many people asked me how to classify, especially in terms of hazardous waste. Many people can’t distinguish it clearly, but now more than a year has passed, fewer and fewer people have come to ask, and everyone can spontaneously identify their own classification.”
It is worth noting that for people who cannot be classified, each community has also arranged relevant personnel to assist in classification. Porridge introduced that its community garbage classification site is on duty every day. “When someone can’t tell what the garbage is, these staff will sort the garbage again.”
resource waste gradually reduced
In November 2021, the average daily domestic waste removal and transportation volume in Beijing is 2195200 tons. If all domestic waste is removed and transported at the same time, trucks with a load of 2 tons can go around the Fourth Ring Road.
If the garbage is not classified, in such a large amount of garbage, all kinds of garbage are mixed together, and the recyclables are also incinerated and buried, and a large amount of renewable resources can only be wasted.
“Garbage is a resource that is misplaced.” Wang Peng, an associate professor at Renmin University of China, said. Through the classified delivery and collection of garbage, and the full recycling and utilization of useful sources, resource garbage can enter the regeneration channel, improve the utilization level of urban renewable resources and save primary resources.
It is reported that one ton of waste paper can produce 850 kg of good paper and save 300 kg of wood, which is equivalent to cutting 17 trees less; One ton of aluminum can be formed after melting, which can reduce the mining of 20 tons of aluminum ore; One ton of glass bottles can produce 20000 glass bottles with a capacity of 1 liter; One ton of waste steel can make 0.9 tons of steel.
After waste classification, part of the waste can be effectively utilized. At the same time, it can also help the harmless incineration of waste, reduce the amount of waste treatment and the floor area of landfill, so that the city can save a lot of waste treatment costs and prolong the service life of treatment facilities.
the relevant person in charge of Dynagreen Environmental Protection Group Co.Ltd(601330) TongZhou company said that in recent years, the garbage received by the company has been reduced by 90% after harmless incineration, saving 378.3 mu of land and nearly 1 billion kwh of power generation in Beijing.
environmental improvement achieved tangible results
If domestic waste is stacked randomly or simply landfilled, it will pollute the water source, soil and air, and breed a large number of mosquitoes and bacteria. Waste classification will help to control harmful gases, improve the environment to a certain extent and protect people’s health.
The carbon emission caused by waste incineration is the focus of people’s attention in the field of environment.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Dynagreen Environmental Protection Group Co.Ltd(601330) TongZhou company said that as an important environmental protection disposal unit in Tongzhou District, Beijing, it has received more than 3 million tons of garbage since it was put into operation in August 2018. During this period, relevant measures such as garbage classification have worked together to help it save 324600 tons of standard coal and reduce 908000 tons of carbon dioxide.
On the whole, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of ecological environment, the air quality in Beijing reached the standard for the first time in 2021, the surface water quality continued to improve, and the soil environment remained good. Among them, PM2 The 5-year average concentration decreased from 38 μ g / m3 in 2020 to 33 μ g / m3 in 2021.
“Although it is only a change of a few micrograms, it is a milestone breakthrough reflected in the actual environmental improvement results.” The person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of ecological environment said.
It is worth noting that the report card of the second anniversary of garbage classification released on the website of Beijing Bureau of statistics shows that the satisfaction of Beijing residents with domestic garbage classification has reached 92.2%.
Ms. Zhou, who lives in Tiantongyuan, said that the environment of the community has changed with the naked eye in the past two years. “There are garbage sorting stations everywhere in the community. It is no longer like before that all the garbage is mixed together. It stinks when the weather is hot.”
Wang Peng believes that waste classification is the general trend of the development of civilization, and at present, Beijing’s waste classification is at the forefront of China. “In addition to the more remote areas, the coverage of waste sorting post stations in Beijing is almost 90%.”
It is reported that Beijing has gradually promoted the construction of recyclable material system. As of August 2021, 487 of the 600 domestic waste sorting stations have been completed, with a completion rate of 81%; 151 domestic waste sorting and transfer stations have been completed.
“Waste classification has obvious effects on the formation of civilized social atmosphere, the construction of low-carbon and environmental protection life mode and the establishment of clean and tidy residential communities.” “Next, Beijing’s waste classification needs to be deepened and normalized,” Wang Peng said
