Waste Management Booming

Several sculptures made from cans, tires and plastic bottles    1    (display) around a recyclable transfer center in Shanghai last year. The idea of making sculptures with trash is to make people aware that trash can be useful when    2    (sort) properly.

It was in 2018,    3    President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of trash classification, that the initiative (倡议) started to get on the fast track. The question “What kind of trash are you (carrying)?” became a popular joke when Shanghai enforced a law that household waste is required to be sorted    4    four categories: recyclables, kitchen, hazardous (危险的) and residual waste.    5    many people doubted it initially, the trash sorting program has achieved great success. Moreover, in the    6    (propose) for the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the Central Committee said the country should accelerate the building of waste recycling systems.

Besides the efforts made by the government, many companies are entering the trash separation and recycling market. Huazhan Environment,    7    high-tech company in Jiangsu province, launched a new brand, Mr. Cat in English, selling intelligent trash stations and bins to communities.    8     (equip) with cameras, sensors and screens, the smart trash stations are    9    (interact) and help people    10    (reasonable) deal with different kinds of trash. They can also alert waste transportation companies when bins are full.

2 . Open an app at your smart phone and scan the code bar on the garbage can. When you throw garbage into the garbage can, it will show the weight of the garbage and the points you can get from doing so.     1     It will become more popular in the future. Yes, we are talking about the smart garbage can.

    2     The environmental problems have become constant headaches in the development of those cities. Encouraging garbage classification has become an effective way.

In some cities, a variety of multifunctional smart garbage cans are being put into use. In Beijing, for example, a smart garbage can is equipped with an LED screen, which not only shows national policies on garbage classification but also shows the correct steps for garbage sorting. It can also calculate the weight of the garbage and the accumulated points one can get. They can be traded for some articles of daily use.     3     Its body is actually a screen. It is equipped with some Internal sensors. When people throw garbage into it, the internal sensors can automatically tell the types of the garbage. Meanwhile, people can see how to deal with them.     4    

Garbage disposal is a small issue that involves everybody each day. However, it is also a big issue.    5     With smart garbage cans in our daily life, the idea of garbage sorting will become more established. Our dream of building a greener and more beautiful China will come true so long as we start to make small changes right now.