Chinese Province Picks Six Cities to Pilot a Recycling Economy

Source: BioCycle

Six cities in the Chinese province of Guangdong will be testing grounds to develop a "recycling economy" - picking 300 enterprises and 15 industrial parks for the program. According to Warmer Bulletin, the goal is to build "a resource conservation and environmentally friendly society to ensure sustained social and economic development." Guangdong Province consumes up to 9 percent of the energy used nationwide.

Six selected cities will have to make ecofriendly changes in production, consumption and management - and are required to meet national standards for clean production and create recycling technology. In the past three years, the government has verified 52 enterprises who meet the standards. Industrial parks will be transformed to meet the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle.

Projects selected for the program will receive funds from the government for technical renovations. Incentive schemes will be developed for enterprises using wastewater, solid waste, and waste gas. (By Anonymous)

Editor: Carrot Chan