Guangzhou steps up garbage-sorting efforts

Authorities in Guangzhou are to expand a garbage-sorting program, according to the city's mayor Chen Jianhua.

Just over 400 of the 1,400 communities in the city started to adopt the program, in which garbage is sorted at fixed times and locations, in April.

Local authorities launched the garbage-sorting campaign in 2012, but the mayor said it had been an arduous task in a city of 16 million.