New regulations to prompt people to sort trash

Editor's Note: A draft amendment to Beijing's regulations on waste management was released online on Oct 14 soliciting public opinions until Nov 13. After Shanghai, Beijing is set to become the second city in China to make garbage sorting at source mandatory. Three experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Penalties will compel people to obey rules

Beijing issued regulations on household waste management way back in 2012, years before Shanghai did so in 2019. It is on those regulations that the draft amendment is based. Like Shanghai, Beijing requires residents to sort household garbage into four categories - recyclables, hazardous waste, kitchen waste and other waste - giving the latter two types of waste more pertinent names, which Shanghai calls wet waste and dry waste.