China plans compulsory trash sorting

Doing their part: Citizens of all ages learning how to use the garbage sorting facility in Beijing. — China Daily/Asia News Network

Beijing: China plans to make it compulsory to sort household garbage and pay for the treatment of such waste as it amends its law on curbing solid waste pollution, according to head of the country’s top environmental watchdog.

Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, made the comment as he, on behalf of the State Council, submitted an emendation draft to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, for deliberation yesterday.