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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Waste management and environmentalism in China

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Figure 6 The contrasting views of informal waste collection of plastic bottles and other plastic materials with that of clean cardboard being collated for formal collection within a controlled industrial site in Hong Kong. (a) A tricycle about to be unloaded at an impromptu recycling depot in Beijing. The depot is collecting plastic bottles and other plastic items for recycling, and transporting them to the factory in very large plastic mesh bags (on the right). (b) Ad hoc recycling centre in an alley. This recycler is sorting items and weighing the plastics using the scale on the right-hand side of the picture. (c) A cardboard collection depot in Hong Kong.

 Informal waste collection