Beijing garbage classification implementation for half a year: citizens need a long time to improve their classification knowledge

Original title: Six months after the implementation of garbage classification in Beijing: Citizens take a long time to improve their knowledge of the classification

On the afternoon of November 3, a half-year press conference for the implementation of the “Municipal Household Waste Management Regulations” was held in Beijing (photographed by Zhang Jiaqi, a CCTV reporter)

CCTV, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Zhang Jiaqi) Since May 1, 2020, the “Beijing Municipal Household Waste Management Regulations” have been in place for half a year. Many Beijing residents have expressed concern about the progress of garbage classification. The journalist learned that there are still some communities with mixed investment and mixing problems, lithium batteries and other harmful garbage have nowhere to put them, and many families are not equipped with “two buckets and a bag” and have not cultivated good household classification habits. On the afternoon of November 3, at the semi-annual press conference for the implementation of the “Beijing Household Waste Management Regulation” (hereinafter the “Regulation”), Zhao Jigui, a member of the Committee on Social Work of the Beijing Municipal Party and deputy director of the Office of Civil Affairs, said that the classification of household waste is a change The basic work of the daily habits of residents still requires persistence and long-term success.

In the six months since the Regulation was implemented, the amount of separated household kitchen waste has increased significantly. According to Li Rugang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Management Committee, the amount of separation in October this year increased from 309 tons / day before the implementation of the regulations to 3,946 tons / day, an increase of 11.7 times, and the kitchen waste separation rate reached 19.79%. With the addition of 1,857 tons of food waste per day in the catering service unit, the total amount of separated food waste has reached 5,803 tons per day.

In the last six months, the rest of the garbage has been reduced significantly. According to statistics, the amount of other garbage was 16,000 tons per day, a decrease of 32% from last year. At the same time, the compliance rate of waste sorting facilities has increased rapidly and the standardized collection and transportation system for sorting waste has continued to improve.

Li Rugang said that the current rate of harmless treatment of household garbage is still 100%. All household garbage will be collected in Beijing, transportation will be regulated and treated harmlessly.

Since the implementation of the “Regulations”, the Beijing Municipal Urban Management Law Enforcement Department has consistently promoted compliance inspection and administrative punishment of household waste sorting, and promoted responsible entities and individuals to meet your household waste sorting obligations. Wen Tianwu, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Urban Management Law Enforcement Office, presented that since the implementation of the Regulations on May 1 to October 31, the Beijing urban management law enforcement departments have inspected 436,500 household waste classification entities and found 17,200 problems. The rate of problems was 3.94%, 27081 cases of household waste were investigated and attended, of which 11,241 were investigated and attended to in accordance with the Regulations. Police inspections in Fangshan, Mentougou and Shunyi districts are more prominent, and the number of penalties for filing cases per capita ranks first in the city.

Wen Tianwu said that through the analysis, it is found that the single-month trouble rate of the main unit responsible for sorting household waste has been reduced for 4 consecutive months. The data shows that through police inspections, the people responsible for the classification and management of the “ten types” of waste have been further urged to actively implement the main responsibilities, effectively improving the awareness of the classification of waste. household waste and playing a role in promoting source reduction, standardizing sorting behavior, and improving the quality of collection and transportation. positive effects.

“Given the various problems that arise from the implementation of waste classification, we are exploring the establishment of a long-term mechanism.” Zhao Jigui said that if we want to maintain the classification of waste, we need scientific and effective mechanisms to ensure it.

Zhao Jigui emphasized that the relevant departments are considering selecting a certain number of communities for pilot projects, innovating the existing mobilization and mobilization work model, refining the requirements and content of waste sorting to meet standards, and exploring mechanisms to long-term to mobilize residents to participate, including aligning well-divided residents. How to reward, how to punish neighbors who do not sort and throw indiscriminately, and adopt technical means to carry out real-time supervision, etc., so that the garbage classification mobilization is developed in a more standardized, orderly, healthy and sustainable.Return to Sohu to see more