Waste management

January 9, 2012One Comment

Photo showing payslip of a Chinese sanitation worker strikes chord in netizens

On the morning of January 4, more than 50 sanitation workers assembled in a square in the town of Zengcheng, administered by Guangzhou, Guangdong province, to protest sudden revocation of their year-end bonuses on top of their already low wages. A payslip held in one sanitation worker’s hands full of calluses and chaps shows that [...]

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December 15, 20113 Comments

Photos: Chinese river turns bloody from pollution from dyehouses

From Caijing and QQ Hearing about water pollution is one thing; seeing it in its true colors is another. To residents on the lower reach of Jian River in Luoyang, Henan province, the sight of their drinking water source taking on a bloody color signifies the doomsday. After the reporter traced the red color river [...]

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November 22, 20103 Comments

100-year-old ragpicking granny on the tramp for decades, homeless and childless; netizens’ comments

From QQ.com At noon on November 17, 2010, an old woman walking on South Wenchang Road in Guiyang with heavy waste paper cartons on her back. It captured the eyes of passers-by including me. “Granny, you are not young, and you carry things so heavy?” The old woman didn’t reply right way. Instread, she took [...]

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