The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other 9 departments have issued the "Notice on the comprehensive implementation of the classification of domestic waste in cities at or above the national level" on the basis of the pilot test in 46 key cities, and decided to be at the national level since 2019. And the above cities have comprehensively started the classification of domestic waste.

The notice requires that by 2020, 46 key cities will basically complete the domestic waste sorting and treatment system; other prefecture-level cities will achieve full coverage of public wastes in public institutions, and at least one street will basically be built into the domestic waste sorting demonstration area. By 2022, at least one district in each city will achieve full coverage of domestic waste; at least one street in other districts will basically be built into a demonstration section of domestic waste. By 2025, the classification and treatment system for domestic garbage will be basically established in prefecture-level and above cities.

The notice is clear, and the top-level design should be done. Before the end of 2019, cities at all levels should complete the implementation plan for the classification of domestic wastes, clarify the classification standards for domestic waste, and promote the target tasks, key projects, supporting policies and specific measures for the classification of domestic waste. Public institutions should take the lead in demonstrating that relevant business sites should actively implement the classification requirements for domestic wastes in accordance with the party and government organs.

The notice requires that school education be consolidate, and that domestic garbage should be classified as a carrier to cultivate a good civilized habit, public awareness and civic awareness of a generation; carry out youth volunteer activities, encourage and guide young people to actively participate in the classification of domestic waste; and mobilize families to actively participate, Vigorously spread the ideas and concepts of ecological civilization, and guide family members to start from themselves and consciously become participants, practitioners and promoters of the classification of domestic waste.

The notice requires that the construction of the municipal waste classification and demonstration area should be carried out in the street as a unit, and the main body of the household waste classification management should be fully covered, the domestic waste classification category should be fully covered, and the domestic garbage classification, collection, transportation and treatment systems should be fully covered.

The notice pointed out that cities at all levels should adhere to the leadership of the party, adhere to the community as the focus, adhere to the people as the main body, adhere to the joint construction and sharing, and classify domestic waste as an important part of the "good environment and happy life together" campaign. To accelerate the classification of domestic wastes based on the rule of law, government promotion, participation by all, urban and rural planning, and local conditions, and accelerate the establishment of domestic waste treatment systems for classified, classified, classified, and classified treatments, and strive to improve the coverage of domestic wastes. .

Source Xinhua News Agency 2011.06.06 reporter Wang Youling