{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='A look at China\u0026#39;s efforts to clean up its recycling industry' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bd52d8eafeecae133421' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bd52d8eafeecae133421' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nA look at China\u0026#39;s efforts to clean up its recycling industry\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eTowns and villages across China are being swamped with rubbish, and their basic recycling systems can't cope with the sheer quantity of waste they have to process.Experts say that China's mountain of rubbish is contributing to the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTowns and villages across China are being swamped with rubbish, and their basic recycling systems can't cope with the sheer quantity of waste they have to process.\u003cbr/\u003eExperts say that China's mountain of rubbish is contributing to the country's carbon emissions and more needs to be done to manage it. \u003cbr/\u003eOn the outskirts of Beijing, the small neighbourhood of Dongxiaokou is busy from dawn with the sound of trucks, motorbikes and bicycles bringing recyclable materials to sell to the recycling centre there.\u003cbr/\u003eEach day, hundreds of tons of rubbish, including plastic bottles, cans, waste metals, cardboard, and paper, are brought from the city's rubbish bins. \u003cbr/\u003eRubbish collectors from across the city remove the recyclables from dustbins, take it to Dongxiaokou and sell the plastics, paper or metals by weight. \u003cbr/\u003eOne rubbish collector, Xu Chao from Henan Province, has been working at the site for five years. He said it provides him with a good income for his family, as well as helping the environment.\u003cbr/\u003eEverything that can be recycled is recycled at Dongxiaokou. But in other areas, much of China's growing mountain of waste ends up in landfill sites or incinerators. \u003cbr/\u003eBut even in Dongxiaokou people say that if the dump was modernised and more efficient, it would cause less pollution. \u003cbr/\u003eThe owner of one of the recycling businesses, Song Shoujun, said the dump needs to be relocated to stop polluting the residential area nearby. \u003cbr/\u003e\"To be honest, the rubbish recycling we are doing here is not really environmentally friendly, and we cause secondary pollution. If they could relocate us to a proper place with a logistics centre, we could set up the businesses in a better way, and we wouldn't let the rubbish we collect pollute the area around, even if it rains or is windy,\" Song said.\u003cbr/\u003eChina, with 1.3 (b) billion people, is on the cusp of becoming a majority urban society in the next five years. It's a major shift after thousands of years as a mainly rural society.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe development of a consumer society in China has created a new problem for China's rapidly growing cities. \u003cbr/\u003eA generation ago, China did not have supermarkets or plastic packaging, and now the waste management systems in place are struggling to cope. \u003cbr/\u003eThe amount of paper, plastic and other rubbish tossed away has more than tripled in two decades to about 300 (m) million tons a year.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 85 percent of China's seven (b) billion tons of rubbish is dumped into landfills, with large amounts ending up in unlicensed dumps in the countryside each year. \u003cbr/\u003eThese landfills are also highly toxic. When it rains, the waste and water form a toxic cocktail of heavy metals, ammonia, bacteria and other poisons seep into groundwater and soil. \u003cbr/\u003eThe decomposing stew also emits methane and carbon dioxide into the air.\u003cbr/\u003eMethane makes up 26% or one quarter of the world's carbon emissions, according to an environmental report by the European Union. \u003cbr/\u003eMao Da, environmentalist and researcher on rubbish treatment said that waste management could play a key role in reducing carbon emissions. \u003cbr/\u003e\"If we treat rubbish properly, we can send a stronger signal to protect the environment and play a greater role in tackling the climate change problem,\" Mao said.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the problems is the country's labyrinthine bureaucracy. \u003cbr/\u003eEconomic planners, who hold the most sway, want cheap disposal sites. Environmental regulators argue against them, and funding is scarce at all levels, experts say.\u003cbr/\u003eChina offers a glimpse of problems that other developing economies will face as they grow richer and more urban. \u003cbr/\u003eCountries like Mexico and India are destined to face the waste problems similar to China's in the next 10 years, according to a report released by the US Environmental Protection Agency.\u003cbr/\u003eDongxiaokou, outskirts of Beijing - 15 December, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of rubbish collectors sorting through plastic bottles, pull out\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of plastic bottles \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of workers moving sacks of bottles \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of bottles being sorted \u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of workers bagging up chips from recycled bottles \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of chips \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xu Chao, site worker: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Rubbish recycling is absolutely a good thing. Because if we don't recycle this rubbish, it will pollute the environment and it is also a waste of resources. Besides, we can make our living out of this.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of truck with sacks of recyclable materials \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of truck carrying cardboard \u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of recycling store \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of worker sorting through recycling \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of bicycle being recycled for scrap \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of bicycle wheel \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Song Shoujun, owner of recycling business:\u003cbr/\u003e\"To be honest, the recycling we are doing here is not really environmentally friendly, and we cause secondary pollution. If they could relocate us to a proper place with a logistics centre, we could set up the businesses in a better way, and we wouldn't let the rubbish we collect pollute the area around, even if it rains or is windy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide pan of recyclables\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of worker  \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Beijing - 2 December, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Beijing cityscape\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of crowds of people walking through city \u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of people out shopping\u003cbr/\u003eBeijing - 15 December, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e20. Set up of Mao Da, environmentalist and researcher on waste management \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mao Da, environmentalist and researcher on waste management: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If we want to control carbon emissions, we need to increase our production effectiveness but at the same time we must reduce unnecessary production. So, to a certain extent, controlling the production of rubbish and increasing the rate at which we tackle the rubbish can help a lot to promote emission reductions in the field of industrial waste management. If we treat rubbish properly, we can send a stronger signal to protect the environment and play a greater role in tackling the climate change problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDongxiaokou, outskirts of Beijing - 15 December, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of workers putting aluminium cans into crushing machine \u003cbr/\u003e23. 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