By Sun Jiejing
On September 14, Hongkou Women’s Federation and Hongkou Greening and City Appearance Bureau jointly organized the “2015 Training Session of Promoting Waste Classification and Reduction and Green Account”. The Training Session adopted such topics as why to implement household waste classification and how to classify household waste as the major contents to illustrate the importance of waste classification and to introduce the “Green Account” incentive mechanism to be fully promoted soon.
This year is the 5th year that Shanghai Government carries out the practical project of “Low Carbon in 1 Million Families, Pioneering of Waste Classification”. And Hongkou plans to complete 282 waste classification residential quarters and 142 “Green Account” residential quarters in this year.
It is learnt that the “Green Account” mechanism, with the idea of “classification for points, points for conversion, conversion for benefits”, will have such incentive guarantee methods of material exchange, service and equity exchange, credit and honor exchange, and lottery drawing to approve and encourage residents who have fulfilled their waste classification duty.
According to the activity scheme, Hongkou will set up 1 or 2 release points in each of the 142 residential quarters, adopt the method of “fixed time, fixed place, and fixed staff”, and assign 1 volunteer to instruct and supervise residents to release wet waste at site and to scan resident’s “Green Account” point card to accumulate points. Each resident can get 10 points after releasing wet waste once and 20 points at most each day, thus encouraging them to participate in waste classification and promoting the waste classification and reduction work in Hongkou.