The country's first carbon-neutral garbage classification station landed in Chengdu
January 14, in Chengdu City, Wuhou District, Tuujin Street, Yongxing community outside of a district, a novel chic, eye-catching garbage classification hut attracted a lot of pedestrians stopped to watch.
It is understood that this is the first national? The carbon neutral garbage classification station? In Chengdu, it is the first of its kind in the country.
Inside the hut, respectively, set up a textile, glass, plastic, metal, waste paper and other categories of waste, residents can be in accordance with the category of waste classification put.
? This garbage classification kiosk, mainly for the convenience of residents to classify and facilitate residents to put in. The relevant person in charge of the Tuujin Street Office introduced the street in accordance with the "Chengdu Municipal Domestic Waste Management Regulations" for the promotion of garbage classification, but also thinking about innovation, ? This time is a pilot, residents put garbage, you can accumulate carbon neutral, accumulate more and more rewards.
The person in charge of the introduction, from the residents' feedback, the initial effect is not bad, ? A garbage classification kiosk can cover two to three million residents, we plan to continue to promote this year, the initial consideration of building eight more such recycling points.
? This model is very good, very good. Just put the plastic bottles of the residents of Cheng Auntie said, before the neighborhood aunts often collect cardboard piled up in the hallway, not only unattractive, there are security risks, ? Now it's good to come out for a walk and bring these recyclable garbage here, and you can accumulate points after you put them in, so it's both environmentally friendly and safe, and I'm very supportive of it.
The concern of the "Chengdu municipal household waste management regulations" will also be March 1, 2021, officially come into force.
Previously, Chengdu City, living garbage classification work to promote the leading group office, Chengdu City Bureau of Commerce, Chengdu City, three departments jointly issued a "Chengdu City, recycling development plan (2020?2025)" proposed that by 2025, Chengdu will be fully built community recycling station (point) 4,000, 50 sorting centers, recycling base of 4. Chengdu will be a reasonable layout of recycling points and sorting centers, promote standardization, standardization of recycling community recycling site construction, optimize the functional configuration of the recycling sorting center, the formation of recycling sites and sorting centers to match the classification of recycling.
What does carbon neutral garbage sorting station mean
Carbon neutral refers to enterprises, groups or individuals to measure the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced directly or indirectly in a certain period of time, through tree planting, energy saving and emission reduction, in order to offset their own carbon dioxide emissions, and to achieve carbon dioxide ? zero emissions?
The 2020 Central Economic Work Conference will? Do a good job of carbon peak, carbon neutral work? as a key task to be tackled in 2021.
Why put forward? carbon neutral?
It starts with climate change. With the impact of human activities on the global climate, the climate crisis is growing in scope and severity. We are experiencing a range of catastrophic weather and climate events such as heat waves, floods, droughts, forest fires and sea level rise.
Average global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, the likelihood of global warming levels remaining below no more than 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial times is rapidly diminishing, and the risk of humanity crossing an irreversible tipping point is increasing.
The World Meteorological Organization report shows that the average global temperature has now risen by 1.1°C compared to pre-industrial times.
This year, the Paris Agreement has been mentioned repeatedly. This agreement, reached in 2015, gives the world two? limit lines by the end of the century to keep the rise in global average temperature from pre-industrial levels at ? below 2°C, preferably no more than 1.5°C?