The treatment realities of Chinese municipal solid waste: A case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Jilin

Abstract

Recently, China has big environmental problems due to rapid increase in a quality and diversity of waste by the high-economic growth. In this research, it has been shown that the actual conditions especially about the urban waste, the kinds, the assemblage system, the discharges and the harmlessness treatments at present in China. In addition, it was analyzed the cause of increasing the municipal solid waste discharges by the on-site studies in Beijing, Shanghai, and Jilin. It has been investigated that the appropriate disposal system of the municipal waste and the necessarily of composting treatment in Beijing city, Shanghai city, and Jilin province.