Put the sorted garbage into black garbage bags, pack them up with ropes, put the garbage bags on your back, stand up slowly, and carry the garbage down the mountain... Yang Hongliang, a cleaner at Badaling, does this every day, carrying more than 100 kilograms of garbage from the Great Wall on his shoulders.

Every summer vacation, a large number of tourists flock to the Badaling Great Wall to see the charm of this world cultural heritage. Since the peak of passenger flow on July 15, the Badaling Great Wall scenic area has received more than 1.5 million tourists. The busiest position in the scenic area is the cleaner. More than 100 cleaners work hard in the scenic area of more than 370,000 square meters. So far, hundreds of tons of garbage have been cleaned up during the peak passenger flow period. A large number of passengers will bring cleaning problems. For fear of delaying work, the cleaners dare not even drink more water. They have only one goal, which is to make the scenic area clean and tidy.

Entrance to the city during the morning rush hour

Cleaners line up in the crowd to pick up trash

There is a small square with an area of hundreds of square meters at the Guancheng of the Badaling Great Wall. It has both an online ticket exchange window and the entrance for most tourists to climb the city. It is one of the most densely populated areas for tourists during the peak tourist season.

Chen Liping and two other cleaners are responsible for the Guancheng area. Standing among the many tourists, she is particularly conspicuous, not only because she is wearing an orange work suit and a pink sun hat, but also because she has wrapped a printed scarf tightly outside the sun hat. "It's really not for the sake of beauty." The 45-year-old cleaner spoke with a strong Yanqing accent, "This is a wind outlet. If you don't wear a scarf, the hat would have flown off long ago." Chen Liping said that most of the female cleaners in the scenic area are dressed in this kind of scarf wrapped around their heads.

At 6 o'clock during the peak tourist season, Chen Liping appeared in the small square with a broom and a garbage bucket. Her main job is to ensure that the ground of the small square is clean and tidy, and to ensure that the garbage in the three surrounding garbage cans is cleaned at any time. At this time, the small square is already crowded. Because of the hot weather in the summer, many tour groups will bring tourists to the foot of the Great Wall early, and climb the Great Wall before the temperature starts to rise.

Tourists queuing for ticket inspection often fill the small square, and there may be food bags, cigarette butts and other debris on the ground. As a cleaner who has worked at the Great Wall for 10 years, Chen Liping has long developed a keen eye, but even if she sees the garbage on the ground, she often can't get close because there are too many people.

"Then I will go to queue up with the tourists." Chen Liping said that most of the tour groups in the morning are groups of tourists. She saw the right time to get into the team, brought a wooden clip specially used for picking up garbage, and followed the tourists forward. Tourists all look up and forward, but she specifically looks down at the ground. When she is close to the garbage, she picks it up with a wooden clip and quickly gets out to "queue" in another line. Chen Liping said that she has used this trick for many years. In the past, there were always tourists in the line who disliked her wearing dirty work clothes and getting too close to them. Now the quality of tourists is much higher, and they all respect her work, and almost no one complains.

The most popular North Eighth Floor

Tourists reach out for a broom as soon as their feet move away

From Guancheng to the north, climbing up from the North First Floor, you can reach the Hero Slope on the North Eighth Floor and see the Hero Monument. The saying "If you don't go to the Great Wall, you are not a hero" is written here, so the North Eighth Floor has always been one of the most popular attractions in the Badaling Great Wall Scenic Area. 43-year-old cleaner Yang Hongliang is responsible for the cleaning work of the North Eighth Floor, cleaning an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, including all trails and 7 trash cans.

During the peak passenger flow period, the working hours of key cleaning staff are 6 o'clock in the morning. Cleaners like Chen Liping who work in the city can start working after arriving at their posts, but cleaners working in the city need to climb a section of the Great Wall before they can start working after reaching their posts. Yang Hongliang's North Eighth Floor is the farthest, and the winding road is about 2 kilometers long. Ordinary tourists need to walk for at least more than an hour, but Yang Hongliang can reach it in 40 minutes.

Before 7 o'clock, Yang Hongliang will arrive at his post smoothly. After a short rest, he will start a day of cleaning work. When there are not many tourists in the morning, he will first check his "responsibility field". If there is garbage left by the last group of tourists the night before, he will clean it up quickly so that his North Eighth Floor can welcome the arrival of a new group of tourists in the best appearance.

Except for lunch time, during the whole day's work, Yang Hongliang will take a broom and a garbage bucket to check whether there is garbage in his cleaning area at any time. As long as he sees garbage, he will immediately go forward to clean it up. As this is one of the most popular scenic spots in the scenic area, more and more tourists will gather here. Yang Hongliang said that sometimes there are so many people that there is almost no place to stay. Tourists are immersed in the excitement of being a "hero" and it is difficult to notice whether there is garbage on the ground. Therefore, Yang Hongliang has to keep watching. When he finds garbage under the feet of tourists, as soon as their feet move away, he will immediately extend the broom and sweep it into the garbage bucket. "Fortunately, I am good at "skills". I have been working in this position for four years and have not been stepped on by tourists."

Public toilet on the tower

I dare not go there even if it is only a 5-minute walk

Because it is the farthest from the office area, Yang Hongliang will bring a bottle of water every morning before leaving. The reporter thought his water cup would be very large, but he took out a water cup from his bag that looked to have a capacity of only 500 ml. "I can't drink much water a day. It's not that I don't want to drink, but I don't dare to drink." Yang Hongliang's voice was a little hoarse. In the hot summer, he worked on the eighth floor of the north building without any shelter every day. In addition, he drank too little water, which made him a little angry.

Yang Hongliang said that the main reason for not daring to drink more water was that he was afraid of going to the toilet. In fact, it only takes 5 minutes to walk to the nearest public toilet on the eighth floor of the north building, but from 7 am to 12 noon, he couldn't go to the toilet in 5 hours. Because there were too many tourists, there were often queues in the public toilets. "Once I couldn't hold it anymore, so I ran to the toilet. It took more than half an hour, and I couldn't afford to delay it."

During the peak passenger flow period, lunch for all cleaners in the city was delivered. After lunch, Yang Hongliang would take a short break before running to the toilet. Usually, he would drink less water to control the number of toilet visits. After going to the toilet, I came back and immediately went to work. "When I was having lunch, tourists were also having lunch. As long as tourists were eating, a lot of garbage would be generated. I had to go back and clean it up quickly. It would be even more difficult when the garbage cans were full."

Garbage cans on the Great Wall

Among wet garbage, watermelon peels and corn cobs are the heaviest

What kind of garbage do tourists who climb the Great Wall generate? Yang Hongliang told reporters that garbage can be roughly divided into two categories: one is large pieces of garbage, such as wrapping paper, watermelon peels, corn cobs, plastic bottles, food bags, instant noodles, etc.; the other is broken garbage, such as biscuit crumbs, melon seed peels, etc. All garbage needs to be sorted first, then collected in a centralized manner, and finally carried away from the Great Wall in batches.

Every time he cleans the trash can, Yang Hongliang prepares two large black trash bags, picks out recyclable trash such as plastic bottles first, holds both ends of the bottle with both hands, and squeezes hard in the middle, the bottle is squeezed flat and thrown into one of the plastic bags, and other trash such as food bags and paper towels are thrown into the other plastic bag, and the wet trash is left in the trash can plastic bag. "Wet trash is the heaviest, it contains not only corn cobs, but also banana peels and watermelon peels."

In order to prevent these trash and soup from dirtying the Great Wall, Yang Hongliang and his colleagues carry the trash down the mountain on foot every day. Taking the eighth floor of the north building as an example, Yang Hongliang cleans out seven or eight bags of plastic bottles every day, each bag contains more than 200 bottles, and each bag weighs about 8 kilograms; two large bags of other trash, each bag is about 30 kilograms; wet trash is 60 to 70 kilograms. The amount of trash generated in the eighth floor of the north building is nearly 200 kilograms a day, and Yang Hongliang certainly cannot carry so much at a time, so he can only carry it down the mountain in batches.

Every time he carries the garbage down the mountain, Yang Hongliang first packs the garbage with a rope and piles it up. Sometimes he carries the garbage on his back, and the height of the black garbage bags even exceeds his head. "It is really hard to stand up with the garbage on my back, and there will always be tourists to help me at this time." As the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down the mountain. Although the Badaling Great Wall has been repaired with a gentle slope, it is still difficult to go down the mountain with more than 100 kilograms of garbage. If the slope is too steep, Yang Hongliang must turn around and go down the slope backwards.

Data

The scenic area cleans up 4.5 tons of garbage every day

The Badaling Great Wall scenic area is very large, starting from the Xibozi roundabout in the west and ending at the Badaling cemetery in the east, with an area of more than 370,000 square meters. He Fang, deputy director of the Environmental Cleaning Center of the Badaling Special Zone Office of Yanqing District, introduced that every day, more than 100 cleaners work in 12 grids in the scenic area to ensure that the scenic environment is clean and tidy. Among them, 56 people are divided into three teams, responsible for the cleaning of 16 public toilets, maintenance of public toilet equipment, and garbage removal; 88 people are responsible for the environmental sanitation of the scenic area roads and the towers, platforms and footpaths on the Great Wall that are open to tourists.

"The most garbage is generated on the North Fourth Floor, North Sixth Floor and North Eighth Floor, because there are many tourists at these three spots, and there are benches for resting. The amount of garbage generated in a day is more than 500 kilograms." He Fang said that according to statistics, the entire scenic area produces about 4.5 tons of garbage per day, including about 0.6 tons of wet garbage, about 2.8 tons of other garbage, and about 1.1 tons of recyclable garbage. (Beijing Evening News reporter Ye Xiaoyan)

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