{"id":20027786,"date":"2019-08-06T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=27786"},"modified":"2020-12-17T00:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T19:17:40","slug":"compulsory-waste-sorting-in-china-brings-wealth-to-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/compulsory-waste-sorting-in-china-brings-wealth-to-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory waste sorting in China brings wealth to some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A number of South Asian countries have started mandating waste sorting, but with limited success. But as waste-sorting is being made compulsory in parts of China, it is creating important economic drivers that may mark the key difference between a good idea and its successful implementation. &#8211; eds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zheng Shaoqian, 25, works for a games studio in Shanghai. Her daily trip to work now includes dropping two or three bags of rubbish off at the waste collection point in her apartment block. She\u2019s been sorting her waste for a couple of weeks now, but she still doesn\u2019t like the monitoring. \u201cI can\u2019t get used to it. It\u2019s like they\u2019re checking my work every time I throw something away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Since waste sorting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.org.cn\/article\/show\/single\/en\/11349-Shanghai-s-compulsory-waste-sorting-begins\">became compulsory<\/a> in Shanghai on July 1, all of the city\u2019s millions of residents have had similar experiences. People\u2019s reactions have ranged from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.org.cn\/article\/show\/single\/en\/11373-Waste-sorting-an-imposed-social-contract-with-potential\">cynical to positive<\/a>. Some even see the new system as a business opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bins are in short supply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many ordinary residents like Zheng, the first thing to do was buy clearly labelled bins to sort waste into. Both bins and bin bags have seen a marked increase in demand. <a href=\"http:\/\/oversea.huanqiu.com\/article\/2019-07\/15088955.html?agt=15422\">Data<\/a> from online shopping site Tmall shows a 30-fold increase in searches for \u201cwaste sorting bins\u201d in June, with sales up five-fold. Of those orders, 85% were in Shanghai. Short supplies have forced some retailers to ration sales.<\/p>\n<p>The bins on sale are mostly plastic. The top ten search results&nbsp;for \u201cwaste sorting bins\u201d&nbsp;on ecommerce giant Taobao are all plastic, with some selling over 100,000 units a month.<\/p>\n<p>Factory bosses are talking of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/fortune\/2019-07\/11\/c_1210189621.htm\">goldmines<\/a>\u201d. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/jingji.cctv.com\/2019\/07\/04\/ARTIiGXyftRKIpoKSwye8gEU190704.shtml\">media reports<\/a>, one plastics manufacturer in an industrial zone in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, stopped production of everything else to concentrate solely on waste sorting bins. Taizhou is known for its plastics manufacturing, consuming 600 million tonnes of raw plastic annually, a tenth of the national total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People are shredding leftovers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food waste from the kitchen, also known as \u201cwet\u201d waste, is one category that has to be separated&nbsp;under Shanghai\u2019s new rules. Many residents regard this as a problem. Such waste rots quickly in Shanghai\u2019s hot summers. Miss a collection time and you\u2019ll likely suffer foul smells and flies. Waste disposal units, which shred food waste into pieces small enough to be flushed down the sink, have been selling well on ecommerce sites.<\/p>\n<p>A promotion on June 18 on JD.com saw more of these shredders sell in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfi.cn\/p20190619000038.html\">half an hour<\/a> than in all of 2018. These sudden bestsellers were mostly made in the United States and cost between 1,000 and 5,000 yuan (USD 145-727). With one of these fitted to your sink, you can flush food waste down the drain, saving yourself the trouble of carrying it to the collection station.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shuigongye.com\/News\/20101\/2010010609123900001.html\">some users<\/a>&nbsp;have been blocking up their&nbsp;pipes. Drains in Chinese homes are not designed to be used with these units. They tend to have horizontal runs of pipe, making it easy for the food waste to get trapped.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, China\u2019s urban water treatment plants may not be able to cope with the extra load. Zheng Jianping, head of Shanghai\u2019s Landscaping and City Appearance Bureau, recommends against using waste disposal units. In an interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yicai.com\/news\/100241434.html\">he said<\/a> food waste can create substances such as methane, and disposal via the drains will increase river pollution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New online services are springing up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If throwing out your rubbish is too much hassle, you can now pay someone else to do it for you. Xianyu, a Taobao platform for selling secondhand goods, now has users offering to deal with people\u2019s rubbish for between 50 and 400 yuan (USD 7-58) a month.<\/p>\n<p>Ele.me, a food delivery site, will collect rubbish for 12 yuan a time, though customers have to do the sorting first. The site only offers to make sure it\u2019s thrown away at the correct time and place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no reason not to do that now and then, but it\u2019s not a regular option,\u201d said Zheng Shaoqian, who plans to use these services only if she\u2019s working late or has something urgent on.<\/p>\n<p>Software telling you what waste goes in which category have&nbsp;also been acquiring lots of new users. China\u2019s two major mobile payment platforms, Alipay and WeChat, have launched mini-programmes embedded into their apps, complete with augmented reality recognition and photo and voice search. Four hundred different types of waste are said to be covered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some shares are booming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s new sorting system has even affected China\u2019s stock markets. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/stock.eastmoney.com\/a\/201907091172812282.html\">Eastmoney.com<\/a>, 55 companies saw their share prices rise thanks to the changes, with most increasing by more than 10%, and four seeing a 45% or greater increase.<\/p>\n<p>But not all the sought-after firms are benefiting from the waste-sorting boom. The Hanyu Group, a pump manufacturer, saw its share price rise by the daily limit three days in a row, until it issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/pdf.dfcfw.com\/pdf\/H2_AN201907021337085772_1.pdf\">statement<\/a> on July 2 saying increased sales of its waste disposal units would have a negligible impact on its performance, and reminding investors to exercise caution.<\/p>\n<p>Other firms have tried to jump on the bandwagon. With food waste now being separated out, the remaining dry waste can be incinerated at lower temperatures thanks to reduced moisture content. On July 3, the Konka Group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjnews.com.cn\/finance\/2019\/07\/03\/598906.html\">announced<\/a> that its subsidiary, Econ Technology, is preparing to enter the incineration business.<\/p>\n<p>Although the excitement on the stock exchanges is now beginning to fade, there is no doubt that waste sorting has opened up a new market with great potential. Its scale ranges from tens of billions to a trillion yuan, according to different estimates. <a href=\"http:\/\/stock.eastmoney.com\/a\/201906211157180055.html\">The Oriental Wealth Securities Research Institute<\/a> predicts that waste disposal will reach a market size of more than 196 billion yuan (USD 28.5 billion). State-run news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/fortune\/2019-07\/24\/c_1124790038.htm\">Xinhua<\/a> is more optimistic, suggesting the market could exceed the trillion yuan mark (USD 145.5 billion). This huge new market will develop rapidly as the Shanghai model is promoted throughout China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waste separation rules have changed the lives of Shanghai residents and created opportunities to make money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2194,"featured_media":20024320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[758,760],"tags":[578,580,20000341],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000110],"class_list":["post-20027786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pollution","tag-plastics","tag-policy","tag-water-pollution","country-china"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Compulsory waste sorting in China brings wealth to some | 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