Why didn't our community change the four-color bucket? Beijing Municipal Management Committee responded
Reporter Zhang Nan
"All the other communities have started to provide four-color trash cans. Why haven't we changed the barrels in our community?"
The newly revised "Beijing Municipal Waste Management Regulations" came into effect this month. Ms. Su, who lives in an old community in Chaoyang District, was surprised when she went downstairs to throw garbage in the past two days. All kinds of garbage are mixed together and discarded at will.
"All the time, there are only two kinds of trash cans downstairs. The gray ones are other trash cans, the green ones are kitchen waste trash cans. I have never seen the" legendary "red and blue barrels. After the implementation on January 1, what will happen to the garbage bins in the community? "Ms. Su was quite disappointed. She had to put the two garbage bags that had been sorted at home into other garbage bins and kitchen waste bins. . But the recyclables in her hands made her hesitant. There are no recyclables trash bins in the community. Where should I throw the recyclables classified?
The reporter noticed that at present, not all communities in this city have complete trash cans and put in place sites.
Similar to Ms. Su's experience, the trash cans downstairs in Mr. Liu's house are all blue recyclable trash cans. "In the past few days on May 1st, the blue trash can downstairs was relabeled. A blue barrel has a gray label for 'other trash', a blue label for 'recyclables', and another Dispose of trash cans with masks attached. "
In a residential compound near the North Fourth Ring Road in Haidian District, the trash can is still the old "three old", and residents have never seen a "red bucket" at all. Aunt Liu told reporters that the residents sorted out the garbage themselves, but took it downstairs and found that the barrels did not change, and everyone throws them casually. "As in the original, wherever there is land in the barrel, throw it away", and accept it. The garbage truck is coming, and three barrels of garbage "fall into the vehicle with one brain, not yet mixed together".
After the implementation of the "Regulations", when will the trash bins downstairs of the residents' houses be available? In this regard, Li Rugang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Management, said that Beijing has started to create demonstration zones for garbage classification in 2017 with streets and towns as the unit. By the end of 2019, the creation rate of the municipal waste classification demonstration area will reach 60%. By the end of this year, the creation of a garbage classification demonstration area will reach 90%.
The reporter learned that the matching of "four-color" trash cans is one of the basic requirements of the garbage classification demonstration area. Li Rugang said that today, there are indeed some individual communities where garbage classification has not yet been implemented. This will be a gradual implementation and gradual advancement process. The newly revised "Regulations of Beijing Municipality on the Management of Domestic Waste" will be implemented, which will greatly promote the process of creating full coverage of the waste classification demonstration area.