This Day, That Year

Item from July 26, 1999, in China Daily: A woman puts a bag of litter into a bin at a categorized gabarge collection center in her neighborhood in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

In recent years, the city has promoted the garbage classification system and built many such centers in an effort to protect the environment.

Although garbage classification is not a new concept to most Chinese, in many cities it is a failure due to a lack of supervision and low public awareness.