Its no doubt that university campuses will produce a large amount of rubbish everyday, however, there are fewer college students paying attention to its classification.
Factually waste separation is vital to create an environment-friendly campus. Firstly, waste separation does great contribution to the environmental protection. Since some of the waste is recyclable, some is unrecyclable, if all the students could voluntarily differentiate recyclable rubbish from unrecyclable rubbish, the risk of the environmental pollution will be greatly reduced. Secondly, waste separation could save a lot of energy and time on its processing.
With the rapid increase in the amount of rubbish at the campus, rubbish classification does not permit of any delay. On the one hand, as the well-educated people, college students should act as hosts of the universities and separate waste from this moment on in their daily life. On the other hand, university authorities should strengthen students awareness of environmental protection and guide students to separate waste in a reasonable way.
Seeking to reduce the amount of garbage in the city, Hangzhou, capital of East China’s Zhejiang Province, is experimenting with a measure to ‘name and shame’ those who fail to put garbage in the right place。
At the Dongpinggang Community on Hubing Road, people should mark their household numbers on garbage bags before throwing them away, and there are now inspectors staying beside the dustbins, evaluating the classification of garbage。
The regulations on garbage classification require people to put garbage into four separate bins labeled recyclable waste, harmful waste, kitchen waste and other waste。 A total of 843 residential(住宅区的) areas, about 55 percent of the city’s total, have adopted this measure。
The results of the evaluation are posted in a diagram near the dustbins。 The households which have correctly sorted more than 80 percent of their garbage will be marked in green,those with less than 40 percent garbage correctly sorted are marked in red and the rest in yellow。
Vice director of the Hubing Road office, Yao Jie, said。 “The performance of every household in garbage sorting can be clearly seen by the public under such a system。”