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Sports / China
Contractors?sought to dispose of Olympic waste
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-13 21:55
The Beijing municipal government is planning to ban individuals from
collecting and processing kitchen waste from the venues and restaurants
for next year's Olympic Games.
The administration will seek tenders from quality contractors to dispose
kitchen waste, according to a circular reported in the Beijing News.
The 122 restaurants signed as catering partners of the Olympics and 31
Olympic venues are in the first group to carry out the policy.
More big restaurants, school and government department canteens will join
in by 2008 and all restaurants in the city will be covered by 2010.
Beijing's 15 million permanent residents produce 1,200 tons of kitchen
waste -- mostly food and edible oil -- each day, said an official of the
Beijing Municipal Administration Commission.
The policy will prevent illegal recycling of edible oil, which fails to
meet health standards and spreads epidemics, he said.
The waste contractors are required to transport waste in marked vehicles
and follow regulations such as separating kitchen from non-kitchen waste.
The administration will publicize the list of selected contractors
regularly, the circular said.
Four kitchen waste disposal plants are to be built in Beijing by next
year.
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