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With the rapid development of the economy, the amount of garbage in China has skyrocketed.In order to solve the problem of waste everywhere, the authorities have adopted the method of incineration, but this immediately effective method seriously endangers people's health.Waves of protests against incineration spread across China.
For decades, China has become the "factory of the world," its cities expanding rapidly, but its garbage is growing as fast as its GDP.Every year, Beijing residents build incinerators around the city to solve the problem.Residents in the suburbs of the city have been suffering from high incidence of disease, triggering a public outcry.Some experts said that waste incineration has become "yesterday's yellow flower" in the world, only to promote garbage classification, recycling and reduction policies, and supervision by the public is "garbage outlet."
Panyu residents successfully resist 'garbage'
On the morning of December 20, guangzhou panyu district residents' representatives received three promises from district party secretary tan yinghua: "we will stop the waste incineration power plant project."This means that "fight" for more than two months "panyu owners" achieved "stage victory."
Earlier, lu zhiyi, deputy secretary general of the guangzhou municipal committee of the communist party of China, said he would unswervingly promote garbage incineration, sparking strong protests.About 2,000 residents of panyu district gathered to protest against the city government. The crowd was emotional and shouted "we don't want to be represented!""Anti-pollution, anti-corruption" and other slogans, and called on lu zhiyi to step down.The authorities had to back down.
The pollution caused by incineration is not "out of the blue".The most oxin is to be blamed for the "toxins of the century", known as Dioxin, and the heavy metals.Incineration of toxic emissions will seriously pollute the environment.Panyu residents are worried about their safety. They said, "the garbage in China is not classified. Everything is burned, such as plastics, rubber, and all of these contain the poisonous gas dioxin."
Yongxing village of li keng on the outskirts of guangzhou, originally beautiful, since the construction of garbage incineration plant, air, water, dust pollution is increasingly serious.Yongxing, a village of less than 2,000 people, has at least 75 cancer patients, 42 of whom have died, making it a veritable "cancer village."
Fan tianzai, 61, said he had a strange disease, coughing up blood, unable to rest day and night, and wanted to commit suicide.Fan tianzai's son privately said that lung cancer, but did not dare tell his father, the doctor said, even if the cost of 100,000 surgery will not live half a year.He wanted to sell the building to his father, but no one bought the building here.Other villagers say children now often have uncomfortable noses, throats, coughs and fever.
Zhao zhangyuan, an expert at the institute of environmental sciences of the Chinese academy of sciences, is firmly opposed to waste incineration. "dioxin is a first-grade carcinogen. The most unpleasant thing is that it is difficult to degrade.
Garbage growth is as constant as GDP activism
According to the 2008 yearbook, the total amount of waste in 655 cities in China reached 1.25 billion tons in 2007, with an annual growth rate of 8% to 10%.About two-thirds of the city is surrounded by garbage.
Since the first waste incineration plant was launched in shenzhen in 1998, more than 130 waste incineration plants have been built or are being built in China. More than two-thirds of them are located in economically developed and densely populated areas along the east coast of China.
Meanwhile, mass protests continued in major cities such as Beijing and guangzhou.Recent protests have been reported at three major waste treatment plants around Beijing: assouwei, liulitun and gaoantun.Residents in the hundreds, if not thousands, stopped garbage trucks to protest against air pollution caused by improper disposal of garbage.
Zhang xantang, director of the urban economics department at the China economic times, said: "the government's approach to this issue is simple and easy."I don't think this is a long-term solution, especially given the environmental pressure and capacity constraints in the capital, we should start from the basics."As for garbage classification, he said: "at least at the moment I don't feel the above attention to this issue."
Many netizens said that without a real minzhu process, the protests would be more intense in the future if officials adopt such a muddle through attitude.
So how does it work abroad?In 1985, plans for more than 137 incinerators in the United States were canceled.In 1992, Ontario, Canada passed a ban on incinerators;Fifty-two incinerators in the great lakes were discontinued in 1996;Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries have also issued "incinerator ban";By July 2000, 4,600 incineration facilities had been shut down in Japan.
Experience in garbage management in Taiwan
Taiwan's resource recovery has been successful, with Taipei city's resource recovery rate reaching 45%.The picture shows the paper recycling yard.(AFP)
While incinerators across the mainland have sparked an outcry, incinerators across the strait face a different picture: not enough waste to burn.At the beginning of November, Taipei's garbage trucks were often less than half full, and recycling has reduced daily household waste in Taipei to 1,500 tons from 3,695 tons a decade ago.
More than a decade ago, Taiwan also launched a huge plan of "one incinerator per county, one city", which led to civil protests against incinerators all over the island.Between 1999 and 2003, after persistent protests and lobbying by residents and environmental groups, the last third of incinerators were cancelled or disabled.
In 2005, under the pressure of the public, the construction agency of incinerators in Taiwan was dissolved.According to expert analysis, paper, plastic and kitchen waste account for 70 to 80 percent of Taiwan's garbage, and only 20 to 30 percent of the waste is left for incineration after recycling.
The authorities are also trying to "get closer" to residents, such as hsinchu's environmental protection bureau, which has offices in a waste incinerator.A voluntary group of environmental volunteers has been monitoring incineration plants and has called for the ban and use of PVC, a dioxin-producing material.
At present, Taipei produces 1,200 tons of recycled materials and 1,500 tons of garbage every day, with 45 percent of resources recycled. Greenhouse gas emissions also dropped from 2.2 million tons in 1998 to 64.42 million tons in 2006, a reduction of 71 percent.Taipei also hopes to achieve a vision of "recycling all resources and zero waste" by 2010.
For decades, China has become the "factory of the world," its cities expanding rapidly, but its garbage is growing as fast as its GDP.Every year, Beijing residents build incinerators around the city to solve the problem.Residents in the suburbs of the city have been suffering from high incidence of disease, triggering a public outcry.Some experts said that waste incineration has become "yesterday's yellow flower" in the world, only to promote garbage classification, recycling and reduction policies, and supervision by the public is "garbage outlet."
Panyu residents successfully resist 'garbage'
On the morning of December 20, guangzhou panyu district residents' representatives received three promises from district party secretary tan yinghua: "we will stop the waste incineration power plant project."This means that "fight" for more than two months "panyu owners" achieved "stage victory."
Earlier, lu zhiyi, deputy secretary general of the guangzhou municipal committee of the communist party of China, said he would unswervingly promote garbage incineration, sparking strong protests.About 2,000 residents of panyu district gathered to protest against the city government. The crowd was emotional and shouted "we don't want to be represented!""Anti-pollution, anti-corruption" and other slogans, and called on lu zhiyi to step down.The authorities had to back down.
The pollution caused by incineration is not "out of the blue".The most oxin is to be blamed for the "toxins of the century", known as Dioxin, and the heavy metals.Incineration of toxic emissions will seriously pollute the environment.Panyu residents are worried about their safety. They said, "the garbage in China is not classified. Everything is burned, such as plastics, rubber, and all of these contain the poisonous gas dioxin."
Yongxing village of li keng on the outskirts of guangzhou, originally beautiful, since the construction of garbage incineration plant, air, water, dust pollution is increasingly serious.Yongxing, a village of less than 2,000 people, has at least 75 cancer patients, 42 of whom have died, making it a veritable "cancer village."
Fan tianzai, 61, said he had a strange disease, coughing up blood, unable to rest day and night, and wanted to commit suicide.Fan tianzai's son privately said that lung cancer, but did not dare tell his father, the doctor said, even if the cost of 100,000 surgery will not live half a year.He wanted to sell the building to his father, but no one bought the building here.Other villagers say children now often have uncomfortable noses, throats, coughs and fever.
Zhao zhangyuan, an expert at the institute of environmental sciences of the Chinese academy of sciences, is firmly opposed to waste incineration. "dioxin is a first-grade carcinogen. The most unpleasant thing is that it is difficult to degrade.
Garbage growth is as constant as GDP activism
According to the 2008 yearbook, the total amount of waste in 655 cities in China reached 1.25 billion tons in 2007, with an annual growth rate of 8% to 10%.About two-thirds of the city is surrounded by garbage.
Since the first waste incineration plant was launched in shenzhen in 1998, more than 130 waste incineration plants have been built or are being built in China. More than two-thirds of them are located in economically developed and densely populated areas along the east coast of China.
Meanwhile, mass protests continued in major cities such as Beijing and guangzhou.Recent protests have been reported at three major waste treatment plants around Beijing: assouwei, liulitun and gaoantun.Residents in the hundreds, if not thousands, stopped garbage trucks to protest against air pollution caused by improper disposal of garbage.
Zhang xantang, director of the urban economics department at the China economic times, said: "the government's approach to this issue is simple and easy."I don't think this is a long-term solution, especially given the environmental pressure and capacity constraints in the capital, we should start from the basics."As for garbage classification, he said: "at least at the moment I don't feel the above attention to this issue."
Many netizens said that without a real minzhu process, the protests would be more intense in the future if officials adopt such a muddle through attitude.
So how does it work abroad?In 1985, plans for more than 137 incinerators in the United States were canceled.In 1992, Ontario, Canada passed a ban on incinerators;Fifty-two incinerators in the great lakes were discontinued in 1996;Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries have also issued "incinerator ban";By July 2000, 4,600 incineration facilities had been shut down in Japan.
Experience in garbage management in Taiwan
Taiwan's resource recovery has been successful, with Taipei city's resource recovery rate reaching 45%.The picture shows the paper recycling yard.(AFP)
While incinerators across the mainland have sparked an outcry, incinerators across the strait face a different picture: not enough waste to burn.At the beginning of November, Taipei's garbage trucks were often less than half full, and recycling has reduced daily household waste in Taipei to 1,500 tons from 3,695 tons a decade ago.
More than a decade ago, Taiwan also launched a huge plan of "one incinerator per county, one city", which led to civil protests against incinerators all over the island.Between 1999 and 2003, after persistent protests and lobbying by residents and environmental groups, the last third of incinerators were cancelled or disabled.
In 2005, under the pressure of the public, the construction agency of incinerators in Taiwan was dissolved.According to expert analysis, paper, plastic and kitchen waste account for 70 to 80 percent of Taiwan's garbage, and only 20 to 30 percent of the waste is left for incineration after recycling.
The authorities are also trying to "get closer" to residents, such as hsinchu's environmental protection bureau, which has offices in a waste incinerator.A voluntary group of environmental volunteers has been monitoring incineration plants and has called for the ban and use of PVC, a dioxin-producing material.
At present, Taipei produces 1,200 tons of recycled materials and 1,500 tons of garbage every day, with 45 percent of resources recycled. Greenhouse gas emissions also dropped from 2.2 million tons in 1998 to 64.42 million tons in 2006, a reduction of 71 percent.Taipei also hopes to achieve a vision of "recycling all resources and zero waste" by 2010.
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