Latest comments posted about Sorting the rubbish 34 ways on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2335-Sorting-the-rubbish-34-ways http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2335-Sorting-the-rubbish-34-ways Failing to sort the rubbish adequately is the fatal crux of China’s waste problems.An excerpt from Southern Weekly says “Leftovers, vegetables, peel and all kinds of household garbage mix together due to lack of sorting. The high moisture content makes a direct impact on caloric value. As a result only eight hundred calorie is left when burnt. Merely two hundred and thirty KWh is generated after the combustion of one ton of household garbage. In the countries that have succeed in waste sorting, more than three thousand calorie can be produced by burning rubbish and about one thousand KWh electricity would be produced from a ton of rubbish, which is three times more than the unsorted version.” This comment was translated by Mingzhu Yao Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:53:27 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-8741 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-8741 Incineration is the dead of earth! And zero waste, like in nature, is the future. Here are some helpful informations about kryo- recycling and biological waste treatment: http://www.buendnis-zukunft.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=174 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:08:19 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-8146 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-8146 Most places are dependent on disposal to land or air because it's the cheapest and easiest option. However this neglects that everything thrown away needs to be replaced with vast costs and effort in new materials, energy water, pollution, etc. So the answer is to switch from making waste everywhere to making new resources instead. You can see the need for this switch in a fun cartoon, www.storyofstuff.com. You can see how to make it happen in practice with new economics on my UN site http://www.climateneutral.unep.org/cnn_members.aspx?m=195. The 'climate briefing' shows how to fix both waste and climate issues. As a bonus this new economics would help every country towards economic recovery. James Greyson www.blindspot.org.uk Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:15:58 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7848 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7848 垃圾/说白了就是人们用过一次而丢弃的产品 何不分检处理利用 若有这种准备的组织或政府可以联系 xuxianrong1@126.com 15026855617 13764861618 许先荣先生 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:39:23 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7847 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7847 I’m strongly in favour of zero-waste declaration, I believe we have to take it as a future way of protecting the environment. Hope everybody will apply that method starting from themselves, let’s take an action together! Xin Duan REN (This comment was translated by Katarzyna Wachowska.) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:55:21 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7825 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7825 Mentioning their high costs does not necessarily mean to say no to the sorting ways. What I am trying to say is, the high costs will compromise the possible popularity of recycling the waste. That means we need to come up with ways to reduce these costs. (This comment was translated by Zheng Shen.) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:03 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7790 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7790 Yes it would take a lot of resources to make a zero-waste community, including valuable water to clean everything. In terms of yen, the cost is not very high, because water is not very expensive and the program is run by a non-profit organization, so labor costs are free. The only expensive part, then, is fuel. In terms of overall resources, the effort should be worthwhile. It takes a minimal amount of resources to be a zero-waste community (some water, gas, and time) whereas it takes a vast amount of resources to be a wasteful community (lots of water, much more gas, more time, space for landfills, and many other resources!) --Crystal, US Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:45:27 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7789 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7789 I am stunned by Comment Number 1. "Isn't the cost too much?" What should we do, then? Continue to waste materials and resources, and continue to burn rubbish, or throw it into big holes in the earth? I'm really interested in what others think about to deal with our mountains of waste. -- Matty Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:24:36 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7787 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7787 Washing needs water, transporting the garbage uses gas, and on top of that there are labor costs. Isn't the cost too much? This comment was translated by Lijin Zeng. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:44:36 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7784 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2335#comment-7784