With the garbage trucks coming in and out, the garbage sorting center of about 130 square meters soon filled with garbage. Tang Chunhua and several colleagues tore open garbage bags and sorted dry and wet garbage and recyclables one by one by hand.

Tang Chunhua is a garbage sorter. She works at a garbage sorting center one kilometer away from Shanghai Railway Station. All the garbage generated by trains, platforms and waiting rooms traveling from south to north will be collected and transported here. After the Spring Festival travel rush began, more trains stopped at Shanghai station, and the total amount of garbage waiting to be sorted kept climbing.

Tang Chunhua is the first batch of employees recruited after the garbage sorting center was established last year. Her daily work is to separate dry and wet garbage and recyclables from a pile of garbage that includes but is not limited to fruit shells, instant noodles boxes, plastic bottles, slippers and dirty tissues. Sometimes, there will be some annoying things: smelly children's diapers, stool, an incareful scratch people's broken glass, and so on.

Tang Chunhua also finds it difficult to deal with food thrown away by tourists. For example, when they come across leftover instant noodles, they need to dump the noodles into the wet garbage first, and then put the box into the dry garbage.

According to the rules, not a single chopstick or paper towel can be mixed with food scraps, and the water in drinks bottles must be emptied out, a move they have to repeat thousands of times a day.

"We have to sort faster, otherwise the waste will pile up at the door." Tang Chunhua told reporters that more than 60 tons of garbage are transported to the station every day, of which more than 700 kilograms are recyclable. After sorting, plastic bottles, cans and cardboard will be transported to waste recycling stations, wet waste will be sent to a treatment plant to compost, and dry waste will be compressed and sent to landfills.

Often, as soon as one load of garbage has been cleared, the next load arrives.

It's bound to be a messy, hard job. Tang Chunhua and her colleagues split into morning and evening shifts and continued their work 24 hours a day.

Tang Chunhua said that walking on the road do not dare to be too close to others, afraid that others have a strange vision, say how so sloppy, a smelly.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, Tang Chunhua's husband and son have bought a ticket to their hometown in Anhui and are ready to leave, but she decided not to go back this year because of her work. Her idea is very simple and very moving: if no one to do the work, the garbage can not be disposed of, the consequences can not be imagined.

From the beginning to hide the family, to later the family know and support her work, Tang Chunhua face of happiness: "The husband is to bring the rice, the children also told me not to be too tired."

The Shanghai Railway station where Tang Chunhua is located is one of the three major railway stations in Shanghai. During the Spring Festival travel rush, the three stations handle 130 tons of garbage every day, equivalent to the total garbage generated by tens of thousands of households in one day.

Nowadays, garbage sorting is gradually being promoted in China. In the future, whether the train can be reformed as soon as possible, and whether the passengers can classify the garbage and throw it away again will affect the degree of hard work of Tang Chunhua and her partners in the New Year.

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