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City creates three-tier recycle network
28/9/2004 11:12

Jane Chen/ Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai will complete the construction of a three-tier recycle network next spring, with more than 1,000 community collection stations, 200-odd sub-district collection stations, and a large city-wide sorting plant.
The network will handle half of the city's wastes, recycling them into usable resources.
Preparations are underway for the construction of the sorting plant, the first of its kind in the city. Zhejiang-based glass giant Farun Group has won the bid to build and operate the plant in the southeast at Huacao.
Greenery is to cover more than 25 percent of the plant's 60-mu (4 hectare) area.
According to the city's recycle network plan, unveiled in 2002, more such plants will be built between the Outer and Inner Ring Roads.
The municipal government will provide subsidies to aid the construction, officials with the Shanghai Economic Commission said.
It is considering including electronic wastes such as used computers and home appliances in the recycle network, the officials added.
They did not reveal the amount of the investment in the plant.
Meanwhile, Brazilian firm Renxin Group is planning to invest US$2 million to construct the city's first treatment center for electronic appliances in Qingpu District next year, according to today's Shanghai Daily.