Where does our trash go? Should garbage only be landfilled or incinerated? Can kitchen scraps be turned into fertilizer? As we watch garbage trucks haul away load after load, these questions may be on everyone’s mind.
Actually, products made from solid waste are all around us—the electricity, biogas and natural gas that people use in their daily lives can be made from garbage, according to Zhao Guohong, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of the China National Environmental Protection Group. Zhao also serves on the board of directors of the group, a subsidiary of state-owned multinational enterprise China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group.
Solid-waste management has become big business in China as the
