How Well Is Your District Sorting Its Garbage?

By Yuzhou Hu, 2019-07-25 13:44:43

It has been over three weeks since Shanghai rolled out the latest garbage sorting regulation. Yesterday, the government released a report detailing the performance of all 16 districts in the city, reports Shine.

Chongming, Changning and Xuhui grabbed the top three spots, while Huangpu, Pudong New Area and Jinshan ranked at the bottom. You can see where your district placed below:

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Most downtown districts did a pretty good job except Huangpu and Putuo. Meanwhile, a large number of suburban districts still have a long way to go before catching up with other parts of the city when it comes to properly sorting household waste.

Apart from ranking the districts, the report contains an even more specific ranking of all 220 towns and subdistricts of Shanghai. These regions were divided into four leagues according to their scores.

As you may have guessed, more than half of the towns and subdistricts that placed in the best league belong to Chongming district. Meanwhile, some towns and subdistricts still managed to make it into the first two leagues even though their districts ranked poorly.

A total of 68 towns and subdistricts were classified as the worst, among which were the Lujiazui subdistrict of Pudong New Area as well as the Nanjing Dong Lu subdistrict of Huangpu district. As the locations of attractions like Shanghai Tower and Nanjing Lu Shopping Street, these two subdistricts did a rather poor job. This is likely because many tourists are still not familiar with the garbage sorting guidelines.

Apart from expressing support for their own districts, many netizens also shared their views on the ranking.

“Guess it’s easier to sort trash when you’re a giant island with mostly wetlands,” commented one netizen.

“They probably just bury it on Chongming,” said another.

It is worth noting that the ranking was based on the performance from April to June, when the garbage sorting regulation hadn’t officially come into effect. In other words, there may be a major shakeup in the rankings when the next report is released.

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