Quyang Road Sub-district Introduces Junk Room

By Zhang Yanli

It is a serious problem to stack bulky waste and construction waste in disorder in community. In order to solve this problem, the Quyang Road Sub-district have built a junk room in Miyun Community as an experiment according to the work of establishing a national civilized urban area, thus carrying out centralized stacking and unified transportation to large worn-out furniture discarded by the residents and construction waste generated during the interior decoration.

The junk room is set up according to local conditions.

Built on the side of the main road of Miyun Community, the junk room is next to the originally-set small compression station, and looks like an enlarged container divided into two zones for bulky waste and construction waste.

In response, the Quyang Road Sub-district had talked with the relevant clearing and transportation units before the construction. After learning about the minimum space needed for these clearing vehicles, this junk room, which is more than two meters high and covers about 100 square meters, is built on the original open-air dump for construction waste according to the actual situation of the Community.

With improving the living standards, the residents improve the living environment through decoration, according to the head of the Sub-district. Upon statistics, the residents in the Sub-district produced 12,441.45 tons of construction waste due to decoration in 2019. If one household produces 10 tons of garbage, then there are a total of more than 1,200 households carrying out decoration throughout the year. "If the construction waste is not standardized or transported in time, it will seriously affect the living environment, so we need to solve the problem through such a fixed junk room," said the head.

The public opinions help renovation.

With taking regular and long-term COVID-19 control measures, the residents' lives are gradually restored as usual, and the Community ushers in the period that the residents decorate their houses. Thus, the newly-built junk room has played a role in time, while centralized stacking reduces the pollution to the environment, and stops affecting the passing-in-and-out of residents.

Ms. Zheng, who lives in the Community for nearly 20 years, is very impressed and says, "the original open-air dump always has an impact on the environment; plus, some residents do not throw domestic waste in it. Now it's great to close it up and protect the environment without any risk."

The Sub-district will install sprinklers in the junk room after finding shortcomings during the actual use and listening to the opinions and suggestions of the residents, in order to reduce temporary dust pollution produced during the transportation process.

As a residential community, there are a total of 78 residential areas in the Sub-district, with the building area of about 2.6 million square meters. After more than 40 years, the Sub-district has become a mature living area and attracts a large number of people, so the construction waste caused by the decoration has increased year by year. In this regard, it plans to gradually build junk rooms for bulky waste and construction waste.