Xinhua News Agency, Paris, Feb. 19, reporter's note: French garbage classification habits become natural Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xuefei

Like many other Western countries, France implements a strict garbage classification system, which lays a good foundation for protecting the environment and promoting resource recycling. Living in France, how to accurately classify all kinds of daily garbage into the corresponding trash can according to the requirements, I am afraid that most "new arrivals" Chinese people are most confused and urgently need to master a life skill.

Paper packaging boxes, newspapers and magazines, as well as empty and flattened plastic bottles and cans should be put into the yellow lid garbage can; Glass cans and wine bottles should be thrown into the white lid trash can; Daily household garbage such as leftovers, fallen leaves and weeds must be put into garbage bags and sealed before being thrown into green LIDS. In public places such as supermarkets, people can also find special recycling devices for special waste such as light bulbs, batteries and electronic waste.

Nearly nine out of 10 French people now say they separate their garbage, according to surveys.

I still remember the first time I visited my French friend Merrill's home, out of curiosity, this reporter followed her and her four-year-old son Gabin to take out the trash. At the corner of the basement floor of the apartment building, there is a special "garbage room", which is neatly arranged in a circle of uniform size, but the lid of the different color of the trash can, each trash can is also posted on the wall with a graphic note, reminding people not to mess with the "property" when throwing garbage.

Merrill explains: "Sorting and discarding the household garbage is something that almost all French households do every day. "The garbage can is distributed by the municipal government, and the municipal garbage truck will come to collect the garbage at a fixed time. There are also clear rules on which types of garbage can be collected on which days of the week, and the apartment manager will push the corresponding garbage cans to the roadside in advance."

When asked if she finds it troublesome to do this every day, the young mother laughs and says: "We have made a habit of it. It doesn't take much energy, and it's good for recycling. We teach children that the sorted waste is no longer just waste, but can become a resource."

At this point, the "eager to show" little Gaban insisted that his mother hold him, and hand-delivered garbage bags, drink bottles, newspapers and glass yogurt bottles into different trash cans, not forgetting to turn to the reporter and smile proudly.

It is with the continuous enhancement of public awareness of environmental protection and conscious participation, as well as adults' words and examples to the next generation, in order to make garbage classification, a seemingly ordinary and very beneficial civilized move, more and more popular in France.

In the implementation of the promotion of garbage classification system on the road, the role of French governments at all levels and enterprises can not be ignored. Cities such as Paris have special deputy mayors in charge of environmental protection and conservation, who often organize promotional activities and demonstrations, and are also responsible for constantly developing incentives. Since France officially launched its garbage sorting system in 1992, more than 5,000 companies have invested about 7 billion euros to support China's garbage sorting and recycling efforts.

What is the "treasure" in the garbage that the French take so seriously? What good is paper, plastic, metal, compost waste (fallen leaves, weeds, food scraps, melon peels, etc.)? Green Packaging, a French company engaged in recycling waste packaging, explains that for every ton of aluminum cans recycled, two tons of bauxite can be avoided, while recycling one ton of plastic is equivalent to saving 0.65 tons of crude oil.

Data provided by the company show that since 1992, more than 40 million tons of waste packaging waste in France has been recycled, and after reprocessing is made into cardboard, metal, glass bottles, plastics and other primary materials, or converted into oil, heat and other energy. In 2013, France recycled nearly 3.2 million tons of packaging waste, with a recovery rate of about 67%, equivalent to a reduction of 2.1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

As one French philosopher put it, garbage is "wealth in the wrong place." As a country with weak resources, France is undoubtedly one of the important foundations to support the country's economic and social development by protecting resources, saving resources and using a small amount of resources to create maximum benefits.

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