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Shanghai, Zhejiang and five other provinces and municipalities in east, central and southwest China have been called out for the ways in which construction waste has been handled or mishandled in these jurisdictions.
China has already seen decades of rapid urbanization and countless construction projects over the past several decades, but it's still not too late to adopt tougher oversight on waste processing and management.
Hello, I'm Lai Ming, and this is roundtable.
Today, with Neil hauling and Steve Hatterly, we find out how worried we need to be about construction waste and what needs to be done to make building projects healthier for us and for our environment in the long term.
Now, seven years ago, I had the chance to decorate my own apartment, and one day I received a call from my property management company saying that they're in a bit of urgency.
Emergency.
I need to have my garbage, which was neatly piled in front of the residential building.
Important point.
Yeah, neatly piled in front of the apartment building.
I need to have them removed as quickly as possible.
Question.
Sorry to interrupt.
What type of garbage are you talking about here?
All kinds of garbage.
I mean, the common practice here, here in China, I dare say that is that when we buy a new apartment, which is often sometimes pre owned, and you move in, the first step you decorate it is to have a big guy with a big sledgehammer moving.
He will probably live in the apartment.
He will use the sledgehammer to tear down, dismantle everything in the apartment, including the tiles, some walls that may or may not be safe to dismantle.
But you go ahead nonetheless.