Law can make waste sorting drive a success

Editor's Note: China is trying to accelerate the garbage sorting campaign nationwide. Shanghai, the first place to join the nationwide campaign, required all households and offices to start sorting their trash from July 1. Which household waste management rules are the hardest to implement and what measures should be taken in the next phase to make the campaign a success? Two experts share their views with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Raising public awareness vital to garbage sorting

To properly dispose of the garbage generated by more than 1.3 billion people whose standard of living has greatly improved over the past four decades, the State Council, China's Cabinet, on June 5 approved a draft resolution on sorting of solid waste and decided to propose it to the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature.