Attitude of Shanghai towards Garbage Sorting Policy

Attitude of Shanghai towards Garbage Sorting Policy
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Attitude of Shanghai towards Garbage Sorting Policy
World population and demand are increasing at an extraordinary speed, resulting in a massive rise in garbage creation. Municipal solid trash created by the world’s cities amounted to 1.01 billion tonnes in 2016. World trash production is now concentrated in the East Asian and Pacific areas, which account for 25% of the total (500million tonnes). On the other hand, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are predicted to account for 35 percent of the world’s garbage by 2050, with waste creation expected to more than quadruple. By 2050, trash generation in the Middle East and North Africa is predicted to have increased by two. At least 33% of the world’s MSW is not managed in an ecologically responsible manner, which is particularly significant. Inefficient waste management is a major source of pollution for the environment, including the air, soil, and groundwater. That will hurt both the urban environment and the health of the people who live there. Unless in Japan, where other structural and political factors may play a role, there is no unconditional bifurcation effect for waste as states become richer (He et al., 2021). As a result, there is little proof for a waste-related exogenous variable without strict policy directives, and there is no waste-related environmental Kuznets curve. In the next decade, a fundamental issue for many governments, particularly those in developing regions, will be how to manage trash sustainably. The research proposal focuses on the attitudes of Shanghai residents towards the garbage sorting policy, intending to research the willingness and views of the Shanghai residents towards the garbage sorting policy.
Public investment in terminal facilities is just a partial solution to the issue of garbage disposal capacity being outstripped by waste output. The government must support source separation to make garbage disposal easier and extend the useful life of waste disposal infrastructure (Yue et al., 2020). A new era in China’s history of extensive garbage sorting is upon us as the Shanghai Municipal Solid Waste Management Regulation went into effect on 1 July 2019 and is the country’s most strict waste-sorting policy yet (Ning et al., 2019). For the first time in China, Shanghai implemented comprehensive garbage sorting and management rules, which they effectively enforced. Shanghai is, without a doubt, China’s top metropolis in trash management compared to other Chinese cities. Other Chinese cities are beginning to benefit from Shanghai’s waste management expertise, which should interest other emerging countries. In the last few decades, environmental studies have gotten a lot of attention. Environmental concerns may not always go hand in hand with people’s pro-environmental activity. In part, this is because individuals often find themselves in a conflict between their immediate personal interests and long-term communal interests when they decide to take action to protect the environment.
On the other hand, pro-environmental activity does not immediately benefit the person but...