Treating rubbish as a resource

Society must begin to make recycling a regular part of life, officials say

BEIJING - The country loses about 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) each year due to the lack of recycling programs that would reuse urban rubbish, experts said on Tuesday.

"Rubbish is a resource, as long as it's properly treated," Chen Yong, director of the Guangdong branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in a report on the development of Chinese cities.