Meat scavenging exposes loopholes in disposal system

VILLAGERS living near a landfill in Jinping county, Southwest China's Yunnan province, have been collecting and selling the expired or shoddy meat products that the authorities have disposed of there. Thepaper.cn commented on Sunday:

It is estimated the villagers recovered and sold nearly 250 tons of meat products, ranging from beef to chicken's feet, until a post revealing the practice went viral on social media and the county government put a stop to it last week.

Once a new load of meat had been dumped in the landfill, hundreds of local villagers would rush to the site and start working around the clock to gather as much of it as possible.