180 waste tires made into "eagles", more than 600 car waste parts made into "horses", and the correct garbage is put into the mini trash can to obtain a "dragon" made of recyclables...... On April 13, at the site of Minhang Station on the 2024 Shanghai Domestic Waste Classification Volunteer Service Publicity Day, various activities on the lawn of Minhang Cultural Park attracted citizens and tourists.
Zhou Haijian, deputy director of the Municipal Greening and City Appearance Administration Bureau and first-class inspector, and Ke Xiaolin, deputy head of Minhang District, attended.
Take a look at the park's intriguing and creative objects
Various "animals" made from recyclables appeared on the Great Lawn
Led by the Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau, the city, district, and street (town) three-level linkage, select one day a month to carry out the "Longxing Langlang Shanghai Domestic Waste Classification Volunteer Service Publicity Day Series Activities" in the city, and constantly consolidate the effectiveness of the city's garbage classification work and create a good social atmosphere. The main venue of the second stop, Minhang District, combined with the customs and habits of going out to enjoy flowers and traveling together, the theme was set as "a good season for walking and a good habit of classification", guiding the general public to do a good job of garbage classification while enjoying the flowers.
On the same day, the "Minhang District Recyclables Recycling Service 'Into the Community, Schools, Institutions, Parks, Shopping Malls, and Parks' Six Activities" covering the whole district was officially launched, continuing to promote the reduction and recycling of packaging materials, and making the new fashion of green and low-carbon life a trend.
At the event site, Minhang District creatively combined the characteristics of the region, using the way that local residents like to see, widely carried out garbage classification publicity, a series of down-to-earth, warm publicity methods and propaganda content, so that everyone can establish the concept of garbage classification in the subtle way.
In the intangible cultural heritage paper-cutting program brought by Zhuanqiao Town, Li Chunling, a teacher of Junlian Kindergarten and the head of Chunling Paper-cutting Studio, and her students cut paper-cutting on the spot. The charm of a pair of scissors and a piece of paper is fascinating, Mr. Li combines the era of garbage classification with the humanistic nature of traditional paper-cutting, and creates a new work, and soon a garbage classification theme painting was born: a cute little girl in spring is sweeping the floor, next to a dry garbage can, implying the theme of the activity: a good season for walking, a good habit of classification.
Promote the concept of garbage classification in an art form that is popular with the public
"It's really ingenious to use paper-cutting skills to promote the concept of garbage classification," said an audience member at the scene. From the garbage classification publicity boards around to the landscape sketches on the streets and alleys, paper-cutting has become a cultural business card of Yuanqiao.
The recovery and recycling of recyclables is one of the key links of garbage classification, and it is also an important part of the optimization and improvement of garbage classification this year. Minhang District has accumulated some practical experience that can be replicated and promoted, and the three main recyclables enterprises serving Minhang, Shanghai Xindong Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Blue Friends Environmental Protection Technology Group Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Dingcheng Environmental Sanitation Co., Ltd., respectively shared the theme of "Releasing Innovation Momentum and Lighting up the "Green" Life Circle - Recyclables Service", "Practical Cases of Recyclables Recycling", "Garbage Classification and Recyclable Resource Utilization and Turning Waste into Treasure Science Social Value" on the practice and creativity of recyclable recycling.
According to the work experience of garbage classification in Qibao Town, the allegro "Those Things about Qibao Recyclables" is created and arranged, which vividly shows the continuous innovation and exploration of Qibao Town's resource recycling and regeneration road from the community, campus to the street.
Awards were presented to 100 outstanding volunteers of garbage classification in Minhang District in 2023 on the spot, and through the unique role of volunteers and the unremitting efforts of grassroots workers, the new fashion of garbage classification leading a low-carbon life will be realized. On the same day, the proposal for garbage classification in park tourist attractions was also issued, and Minhang District took the lead in proposing that all park managers should become practitioners and propagandists of garbage classification, and advocated that citizens and tourists should abide by the relevant regulations of garbage classification and jointly maintain the beautiful environment of the park.
On the same day, an interview on the theme of domestic waste classification was also held. It is reported that the level of domestic waste reduction and harmless resource disposal capacity in Minhang District is constantly improving, the dry waste in the district is about 20% lower than before the implementation of the "Shanghai Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations", the wet waste is increased by 31%, and the domestic waste recycling rate is more than 45%.
Source: Minhang Today