Garbage recycling picks up among students in Chengdu

When Wang Jianchao was a child, he used to pick up discarded metal cans from the streets and sell them for money to buy snacks. His father, from time to time, then used to caution him, saying: "You need to study hard, or you will be left with no choice but to pick up garbage when you grow up."

Wang, born in 1980, then went on to become an engineer working for Microsoft in 2005. But this did not prevent his father's prophecy from coming true.

After quitting his job at Microsoft five years later, Wang started to deal with garbage.