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oapen-20.500.12657-243922024-03-22T19:23:23Z Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste Landsberger, Stefan Society & culture: general Urban communities Media studies thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology::TQS Sanitary and municipal engineering::TQSR Waste treatment and disposal Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Yet instead of taking individual action, they sit and wait for the governments at various levels to tell them what to do. And even if/when they adopt a proactive position, this does not last. Official education drives targetting the consumers are organized regularly and with modest success, but real solutions are not forthcoming. Various environmental non-governmental organizations are at work to raise the level of consciousness of the population, to change individual attitudes towards wasteful behavior, but seemingly with little overall effects. 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T09:57:43Z 2019-10-23 23:55 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T09:57:43Z 2020-04-01T09:57:43Z 2019 book 1005723 OCN: 1103711149 9789048542871 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24392 eng Consumption and Sustainability in Asia application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 1005723.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.2307/j.ctvhrcz2t 10.2307/j.ctvhrcz2t dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789048542871 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 232 Amsterdam Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Yet instead of taking individual action, they sit and wait for the governments at various levels to tell them what to do. And even if/when they adopt a proactive position, this does not last. Official education drives targetting the consumers are organized regularly and with modest success, but real solutions are not forthcoming. Various environmental non-governmental organizations are at work to raise the level of consciousness of the population, to change individual attitudes towards wasteful behavior, but seemingly with little overall effects.
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