Each of us throws out a lot of garbage every day, do you know where they go? They are usually sent to the landfill first and then to the landfill.

Landfills are expensive, costing about 200 to 300 yuan to dispose of a ton of garbage. While Beijing alone produces 12,000 tons of garbage per day, there are currently more than 700 garbage piles with an area of 36 square meters or more within Beijing's Fifth Ring Road, covering an area of more than 5 million square meters, and increasing at the rate of 3-5% per year. People consume a lot of resources, mass produce, consume a lot, and produce a lot of waste.

The reason for the increase in garbage is that people's living standards have improved and all consumption has increased. According to statistics, in 1979, the country's urban garbage removal is more than 25 million tons, in 1996, urban garbage removal is 1.16 a ton, four times as much as in 1979.

How much land does such a large amount of garbage need to be turned into a landfill? The 60-hectare, 2,000-tonne-per-day Asuwei landfill can handle only one-sixth of Beijing's garbage, and it will be filled up in its 11th year. The abandoned landfill is no longer arable land and cannot be built into a living community.

Another method of garbage disposal, now widely used in Western countries, is incineration. After high-temperature incineration after the garbage will not take up a lot of land, but it is not only a staggering investment, and will increase the risk of secondary pollution. Dioxin, which is a highly toxic carcinogen, is one of the main gases produced by waste incineration.

In addition, whether landfill or incineration, is a needless waste of resources, we continue to turn the limited resources of the earth into garbage, and buried or burned them, our future children and grandchildren in the future where to survive?

Is there nothing we can do about garbage? In fact, there is a way, and that is to categorize garbage. The way to do this is to separate garbage at the source and turn it back into a resource through sorting, transportation and recycling.

The benefits of waste separation are obvious. By sorting garbage and sending it to factories instead of landfills, land is saved, pollution from landfills or incineration is avoided, and waste can be turned into treasure.

Sorting garbage is not new to the frugal Chinese. Perhaps you remember the recycling of waste products in the 1950s and 1960s: toothpaste skins were saved for recycling, orange peels were used to make medicine, biological waste was used for composting, and waste cloth, ink bottles and so on could be reused. Classified garbage not only avoids the pollution of garbage, but also provides raw materials for industry and agriculture.

The United States is known as a major producer of garbage, garbage classification has gradually penetrated into the lives of citizens, walking in the street, a variety of colorful classification of garbage cans can be seen everywhere.

The government provides a variety of convenient conditions for garbage classification. In addition to setting up garbage cans on both sides of the street, each community regularly assigns a person responsible for removing the garbage classified by each household.

Residents have also expressed great support for the government's waste separation efforts. This is not only because they are all familiar with the concept of waste separation, but also because it is as natural for them to pay for waste separation as it is for them to pay for clean tap water.

The recycling of garbage as an industry has developed rapidly, and in many developed countries, the recycling industry is occupying an increasingly important position in the national industrial structure. To the United States 3 cities Baltimore, Washington and Richmond, for example, the past recycling of waste per ton of treatment needs to spend 40 U.S. dollars, after the classification process, these recycled garbage in 1995 to create 5100 jobs. In the United States, these three cities are only a very small area, its garbage recycling not only saves the cost of garbage disposal, but also created 500 million U.S. dollars of wealth.

Waste sorting is not only fashionable in developed countries like the U.S., it is also a trend in many developing countries. In Brazil, where trash sorting is practiced in many communities, the mayor has made the sorting bins at the front entrance of City Hall the city's crowning glory. And at more than two dozen nearby beaches, the bins are a beautiful sight.

In some parts of the Philippines, villagers have organized themselves to clean up their living environment, and sorting garbage is a major part of this movement.

Sorting garbage is becoming a worldwide trend in both poor and rich countries, a tradition that has been lost in China, once a world leader in this field.

While others have learned to pick up from us, we have learned to throw away from them. As our lives get better, we no longer skimp on the few cents we get for selling our rags, and would rather throw them away as garbage. Thrift and frugality, the utilization of waste, the traditional virtues of the Chinese people, seems to have been yi moi? Ode? The traditional Chinese virtue of saving and recycling seems to have been lost in the past. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I think I'm going to be able to do it.

Every one of us is a garbage maker, and isn't this mountain of garbage piled up by our own hands, family by family?

We are also the victims of garbage, these mountains of garbage devouring resources and polluting the environment is to be ourselves and our children and grandchildren to bear the consequences?

We should be more of the rulers of the garbage nuisance, and each of us can defeat the garbage nuisance by segregating garbage.

Residents of Dashang Lane in Beijing's Xicheng District began separating garbage on Dec. 15, 1996, with the help of the civic organization Global Village. The initial sorting bins were purchased by members of the family committee with their saved year-end bonuses. The sorted garbage is removed by vendors and businesses contacted by the family committee. Day after day, year after year, the residents never stopped.

As a small spark of civil garbage classification, the action of the residents of Dashang Lane ignited the enthusiasm of many citizens, and since '97, a number of universities, primary and secondary schools in Beijing, as well as a number of retired elderly people have made attempts to classify garbage. With the help of the China Youth Daily's Sister of Knowledge and a female doctor who returned from studying in Germany, the children of the "Hand in Hand Global Village" also built a school with the money they got from recycling.

The public and the children's behavior has attracted the attention of government departments. The Xuanwu District Sanitation Bureau took the lead and began a pilot program in the fall of 1997 to separate garbage and recycle in Xuanwu. The civilization office and streets of Xuanwu district and the civil organization Global Village gave active cooperation.

On April 23, 1999, the Jiangong Nanli neighborhood community in Baijifang, Xuanwu District, was as lively as a festival as China's first garbage sorting and recycling system was officially launched. From this day on, residents will change the way garbage is thrown out and put it away according to the categories of organic, inorganic and discarded soil, and the government sanitation department will change the way garbage is transported and sort it into different categories for cleaning, sorting and recycling. It means that old traditions that have been lost here for years are finally being picked up.

In this battle between people and garbage, people have turned garbage from an enemy to a friend. Someone once compared garbage to a misplaced resource. Let's go to the Xuanwu District Recycling Sorting Station to see what kind of use garbage can have once it returns to its rightful place.

The Coke bottles that we throw away every day and the plastic bags and disposable plastic lunch boxes known as white trash belong to polymer polymerization of organic matter, and if they are buried in the ground, it is 100 years and 200 years can not be rotten, and it will also make the soil platelet, reduce the fertility of the soil, and even make the soil lose the ability to cultivate. In our lives, we often throw away all kinds of waste plastic. Waste plastic can also be made into buttons, pen holders and other supplies after treatment. Waste plastic is also a good raw material for oil refining. Some people once compared them to the image of "secondary oil field". 1 ton of waste plastic can be at least 600 kilograms of gasoline and diesel back to the refining.

In the recycling station, we see a variety of waste paper was sent here, including these inconspicuous small pieces of paper ...... We know that good paper is caused by wood, a ton of waste paper can be recycled 700 kilograms of good paper, can be cut down on 17 trees, but also reduce the production of pulp in the process of water pollution.

But because of China's waste paper recovery rate is still very low, only 20% or so, every year had to import a large number of waste paper only 96 years on the import of 1.37 million tons of waste paper. You may remember the 1980s, the sensational "foreign garbage" incident, that boatload of foreign garbage is under the banner of imported waste paper mixed in.

The foreign garbage was driven away, but left behind reflections, why we have to import waste paper from other countries to do the raw material for paper making? Why can't we maximize the recovery of waste paper, but let them mixed in the garbage buried or burned? China's forest resources are only 1/4 of the world's average, and China's rivers and lakes have been seriously polluted by early sewage discharge. If each person throws away an average of half a kilogram of all kinds of waste paper every week, then Beijing alone will throw away more than 6,000 tons of waste paper a week.

China has a historical tradition of recycling waste products, we used to recycle waste, perhaps only by the economic constraints of poverty as a last resort; in the gradual affluence of today, we recycle waste paper, is to protect the environment consciously aware of and take action. Because we clearly know that what we picked up is not only a piece of waste paper, that is our children and grandchildren to live in the forest and river.

Trash, only when mixed together is garbage, once sorted and recycled are precious, even the kind of waste batteries have become miniature killers can also be turned into profit. In this inconspicuous photo studio, we see such waste battery recycling box. The batteries we use in our lives generally contain toxic heavy metals such as mercury or cadmium, and these heavy metals, if left in the ground, can easily be dissolved through the rain, into the groundwater.

This kind of pollution is very difficult to exclude, biological half-life is about 30 years, that is, you 30 years to discharge half. So this is particularly harmful to people. Waste batteries contain a variety of useful metal minerals, recycling value is very high.

Because of the serious harm and special recycling value of waste batteries, many countries strictly prohibit them from being mixed with garbage, and Japanese communities have these yellow buckets to put button batteries and other items in separately.

Since '97, some citizens and students in Beijing have also taken action to sort and collect waste batteries on their own initiative, and young volunteers from Renmin University have helped set up a waste-battery recycling box for a chain store in the capital.

As a positive response to the citizens' campaign, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sanitation has set up a special waste battery collection point to recycle waste batteries and centralize them for harmless treatment.

Do you know what biowaste is? Bio-waste is leftover food and vegetables, egg shells and fruit leather, picking help vegetables and leaves of a kind of kitchen garbage. These seemingly strange waste can be used for what it turns out they can be used to make good organic fertilizer. Like the locust cypress tree community in this big Nano dream biological waste treatment machine, can be biological waste drying, crushing, made of efficient organic fertilizer. Residents can use it to grow flowers and grass.

Vegetables grown with them are safer and healthier than chemically fertilized food, and are quite popular in supermarkets. Bio-waste usually accounts for 40 percent of total garbage, and if they could all be turned into organic fertilizer, it would save land for landfills, vehicles and energy for transporting them, as well as preventing them from breeding flies and bacteria. Experts have suggested that the government install bio-waste treatment machines in all neighborhoods and set up bio-waste treatment rooms in new neighborhoods.

At that time, we can see that garbage sorting creates a garbage-free society, a society that recycles resources, and all it takes is a show of our hands.