Shanghai basks in recycling success

SHANGHAI has collected 1.14 million tons of recyclable waste since the beginning of July when the household garbagesorting regulations came into force, the city’s commerce commission said yesterday.

It includes paper, plastic, glass and textiles and “almost all” had been recycled, the commission told city legislators during an inspection.

The government has been stepping up effort to push for sustainable development of the recycling industrial value chain for different sorts of waste, and products made from some of Shanghai’s waste had been placed in the world market, according to the government.

In Zhonggu Town, Qingpu District, the Yanlongji company has constructed the world’s most productive, efficient and environment-friendly waste glass processing line which can produce 2 million tons of products a year, while the

Xinjinhua company has been collecting waste glass in Changning District for Yanlongji, the commission said.

The glass from the waste is either exported or sold to domestic glass producers to be made into glassware and construction material.

In Fengxian District, waste plastic collected from 116 communities is first processed by machines at five waste transfer stations into foam cubes and then sent to the Intco company for further processing.

Intco products, including baseboards in home decoration and frames for paintings, mirrors and photos, have been sold to 120 countries and regions, according to the commission.

As a result of government procurement, 45 companies are now working to collect recyclable waste throughout Shanghai and 122 firms across the Yangtze River Delta region with 37 in Shanghai are processing the waste, the commission said.