Nowadays, a lot of wastes are being produced by industry and family life everyday in China. The government is seeking various ways to reduce the amount of wastes and make good use of them. Among all the waste disposed schemes, zero waste and land-filling are the two most popular methods.
Zero waste method, as an economic environmental way, has its great advantage. It is a system that using only recyclable materials for industrial and daily life purposes. By doing this, we can reuse the wastes and convert them into what are beneficial for human-beings. Thus, the wastes are not useless rubbish any longer and they become valuable products.
Land-filling is to fill the waste into land and make them analyze by themselves. It’s good in some aspects because it is costless. We do not need to invest in developing an advanced technology system and pay for mountainous fee.
For China, I think the zero waste system is much more suitable for China’s current situation. First, China, as a large country, we should be responsible for future generations. Zero waste system is non-harmful to environment and it can generate extra amount of value by recycling the waste. Lots of areas in China are still in poverty. By doing these, we can gain extra social wealth. However, land-filling does harm to the soil and cannot make money from it. Therefore, zero-waste is more suitable for China.
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Could you rewrite this combining the comparison and the suggested scheme for China together in the intro?
I think for modern cities in china, it is possible to apply zero waste. However, they don't want to put money on it.
Yes, landfill is not cost-free. There are three practical costs, permanently degraded land, permanently degraded ground-water, and permanently lost resources. Throwing things into either landfill or landfill-in-the-sky (incineration) is symbolic of throwing away our hopes for the future.
Luckily China has the most advanced strategy for waste, which plans 'circular economy' as the way to allow both economic and ecological success. For those who would like to know more, my NATO-published economic tools can make circular economics and zero waste happen on any scale. Please see http://www.springerlink.com/content/u222304p3g1lvt67/ and search the web for links. I would love to see China really take off with its new economic model.
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