Shanghai White Collar: 100 emotions amplified by garbage


Shanghai White Collar: 100 emotions amplified by garbage

In Shanghai, where the business is strong, everything is centered around high-parchedness and efficiency. Young white-collar workers have to do the same high-speed operation with the city. All along, their lives are free and casual, enjoying the convenience of urban life. But recently, a small garbage sort is firmly linking their lives to the community. This kind of emotion that is stimulated by garbage classification at the end of life begins to ferment at all stages of life and work. Their lifestyle has changed.

The picture is from the Oriental IC. This article is from WeChat public number: Gu Yu Lab (ID: guyulab), author: Zhang Wei, editor: Yuan Lin, produced: Gu Yu Studio

Anxiety


Mulan licks the dog twice a day, and every time she has to pick up the dog and go home. She first took out the shit from the plastic bag, poured it into the toilet, and threw the dog's knife paper into the trash bin of the bathroom. The knife was too hard, and she worried that it would block the toilet. This process made her feel "really annoying."

Wang Xi’s colleague gave her a cup of red bean milk tea, three cents sugar, too sweet, she did not drink, did not dare to throw it in the trash can in the office. After work, she ran to the bathroom to pour milk tea into the toilet and then threw the teacup and lid into the trash bin of the toilet.

Sherry found that two of the yogurt she bought had forgotten to drink, and it was overdue. She subconsciously threw it directly into the trash can. Turning around and thinking that it is wrong, take out the yogurt and tear the yogurt cover. First, pour the thick fermented milk into the wet trash can, and then throw the yogurt box into the dry trash can.

In Shanghai, where the business is strong, everything is centered around high rhythm and efficiency. Young white-collar workers have to do the same high-speed operation with the city.

Recently, their lifestyle has changed.

Everything is due to the implementation of the Shanghai Municipal Waste Management Regulations (the “Regulations”) on July 1. The Regulations divide domestic garbage into four categories: dry garbage, wet garbage, recyclables, and hazardous waste. If the individual puts the garbage in the wrong place, the maximum penalty will be 200 yuan.

Recently, I have often seen a group of people around the trash can, under the supervision of the aunts or volunteers, sorting out the wrong garbage from the bags of various colors.

Two months ago, the large trash can downstairs in the Mulan community unit was all withdrawn. She was told by the neighborhood committee that the garbage sorting was implemented from a few days in a day and the time of daily delivery.

Each cell that tries to classify garbage will first evacuate all the existing garbage bins in the community, and then place several unified garbage collection points in the community according to the size of the cell. The recycling points generally have garbage bins with four types of garbage, and each The collection points are arranged by volunteers.

In June, the air in Shanghai is accompanied by the dampness and sultry of the rainy season, and people are easily tired. Faced with garbage sorting, white-collar workers have produced a variety of anxiety.

Don’t throw it right


Mulan found himself throwing it forever. It is her headache to identify which type of garbage each item belongs to. She stood in front of the trash can for ten minutes every day, imagining which bucket each garbage belongs to.

Mulan is allergic, dust, willow poplar, seafood shells, starch, leeks, etc. She can't touch. Therefore, she must cook for herself, and there is a lot of waste in the kitchen. To this end, she placed three trash cans in the kitchen.

The 25-year-old Mulan is a clothing collocation and is almost full of time in a week. She gets up at 6:30 every morning, walks the dog, goes out at 8:00, and often works overtime until 10 in the evening. Five or six days a week, she has to go to the gym for an hour and a half after work. Now, her carefully planned time has been cut off by garbage.

No one ever told Mulan how to classify. After the news about the imminent implementation of garbage sorting spread, there were a lot of garbage classification tests on the Internet. She did it. The 20 questions were only 8 pairs. "I don't know where the mistake is."

The most embarrassing thing happened was the first throw of classified garbage.

She was stunned by volunteers to categorize the scene as if the homework of the student was picked up by the teacher and publicly criticized. Aunt told her that the peel is wet, but the walnut is dry. "It's just like this kind of a mess anyway." But Mulan still remembers it, even though she doesn't know why.

When she encounters the skin of other foods next time, she still has to rethink "what is this garbage." A few days ago, a friend told her that the egg skin was dry garbage, and she suddenly stumbled. But she was instinctively thrown into the wet trash can, and she was relieved by the volunteers. She was relieved.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, she returned the scorpion leaves after eating the scorpion to the kitchen waste and threw it into the wet trash when she got to work. Aunt immediately said that she had thrown it wrong. "She said that the scorpion leaves are dry garbage, and when they are pinched out and thrown into the dry trash can, they smashed me and kept reading me." Mulan ignored her and turned to post a status on Weibo, indicating that he might need A garbage sorting training.

What is wet garbage? What is dry garbage? White-collar workers who are not rich in life experience feel like they are playing a guessing game. When Mulan steamed the small vegetable bag, the cloth was covered with cloth, and every time she habitually threw the cloth into the kitchen waste bin, because it felt wet. After throwing it in, I felt that it was wrong, and I threw it out and threw it into the dry trash.

To show how difficult the classification is, in the circle of friends spread "important knowledge points: rabbits throw wet garbage, shit is not rubbish, take home to throw the toilet to wash away; crayfish shell is wet garbage, fan shell is dry garbage... ..."

In the definition of domestic garbage in Shanghai, shit is not domestic garbage, can not be thrown into the trash can, should be thrown into the toilet and washed away.

As for why rabbits and shit are treated differently, we have not waited for an accurate statement. Baidu search shows that rabbits can be used as fertilizer. What is the difference between lobster shells and scallop shells? A staff member of the neighborhood committee explained to me that this was determined according to the difficulty of garbage decay. Small bones are perishable and are wet garbage.

To help people understand the garbage, different versions of the garbage classification map appear on the network. Not long after a four-category chart fired, the Shanghai Waste Management Office announced that it was wrong, and then there was a new.

There is no comprehensive and authoritative classification method, and some people have proposed to refer to the "pig eating method" to classify. Pigs can eat wet garbage, can not eat dry garbage, eat dead will be harmful garbage, sold can buy pigs as recyclables. For a time, people who only ate pork but didn't raise pigs showed a good understanding of pigs.

trouble


Not everyone can bear to take the dog home. Wang Xijia’s dog is just over an hour. No one wants to squat for an hour. “I feel very good when I think about that picture.” Later she found that the dog loved to go to the grass to solve it, and the shit was left in the grass...

White-collar workers in Shanghai have gradually discovered that garbage sorting has made their lives no longer convenient.

Wang Xi, 28, came to Shanghai to study and live with her parents when she was very young. After studying at a famous university in Shanghai, she went to the UK for another year and now works as a reporter in the media. In addition to flying around the world, she usually stays in the high-end office buildings of many foreigners on Nanjing West Road.

Wang Xi, who pursues efficiency, rejects all the tedious things in life. In order not to wash the dishes, she would rather not take a meal and ask for a takeaway; in order not to soil her hands, she does not eat snacks with peels.

The take-away is the “food and clothing parents” of most white-collar workers. Their daily busyness and fatigue are partly relieved of being taken out. But recently, they found that takeaway has become a difficult thing. When Wang Xi was handling take-away garbage, she had to pour all the residue into the wet garbage. Sometimes she even washed the take-out box with water and threw the take-out box into the dry garbage.

At this time, Wang Xi couldn't help but doubt life: "The essence of my takeaway is to not wash the dishes. As a result, I have to wash the dishes now, so why should I order takeaway?" To save the troubles of classification, She chose to eat at the office and leave the rubbish to the aunt.

When studying abroad, Wang Xi has been forced to implement garbage sorting. When she first arrived in the UK, no one taught her how to classify, because she was afraid of making mistakes, and sometimes she would delay throwing garbage. The school cafeteria supervised the black guy who littered the garbage and saw that she had thrown the mistake, reminded it over and over again, and then always seemed impatient. However, it was a year of infiltration in the environment of garbage sorting, and Wang Xi gradually adapted.

When Shanghai began to implement a drastic classification of garbage, Wang Xiyuan thought that it was not a problem for her. Until recently she discovered that coffee grounds and filter paper had to be thrown apart to realize that it was not.

Wang Xi likes to drink coffee. She is used to grinding coffee beans every morning and then going to work. "When I poured the coffee grounds, I suddenly thought that the filter paper was dry or wet, then I went to search. It was dry. In theory, the filter paper is recyclable, it is degradable or even turned into the feed. Part of it. Anyway, that means I have to get the coffee grounds on the filter paper and throw them into the wet trash can, then throw the filter paper into the dry trash can, I feel so disgusting."

She also likes to buy gold, pink or white flowers at home, usually champagne roses, pink bellflowers or lilies. After the lily opened the flower, the pollen often fell to the table, which also made Wang Xi a headache. She wiped the paper and threw the paper and powder into the dry trash can. But after a while, she thought again: "Isn't pollen counted as garbage?"

Wang Xi plans not to drink milk tea anymore. When the garbage classification was just hotly debated, some netizens spit on the tea. A cup of milk tea that has not been finished should be thrown in four steps: the liquid of the milk tea is to be dumped; the pearl pulp is wet garbage; the cup straw is thrown into the dry garbage; the plastic cover is recyclable. Soon, this statement was officially rumored, and milk tea only needs to be thrown in two steps. But for Wang Xi, it is enough trouble to throw milk tea in two steps.

secret


It’s the most unbearable for Sherry to throw the wrong one. She likes to eat fruit. Sometimes the fruit peels are thrown into the dry trash can, and when they are re-sorted, they are disgusted by their garbage. "Some wet rubbish is on dry rubbish. Do you know what skin you vomit yourself, what is nuclear, and you can't listen to it, your snot paper." Sherry whispered. Now to remind me, she has to take the wet trash can of the kitchen to the living room when she eats in the living room.

Sherry, 26, works in a human resources department of financial securities. In 2017, she graduated from a key university in Shanghai and directly entered the state-owned enterprise. She has been at the manager level for less than two years. The competition in the workplace is fierce, and Sherry shows great adaptability.

"We are a gun for the leadership, and the leader will let the fight were to fight." She believes that garbage classification is essentially the same as what she does, and it must be difficult to implement, but it must be mandatory.

Mandatory means that everyone who throws garbage loses privacy. Sherry's community has been trialed for two months. There are more than 1,600 households and 4 garbage collection points. Four volunteers stood by the garbage room, and most of these volunteers were retired and uncles and residents of the neighborhood.

An elderly male is standing in the garbage house. When someone throws garbage, he puts his head on the trash can and stares at the other party to pour the wet garbage into the bag. Then he throws the garbage bag into the dry trash can, sometimes not seeing it. Take a stick and dial it, so as not to miss the rubbish that touches the fish. The weather is cool and fashionable, but if it is a hot summer, the wet trash can be difficult to get close to.

This is a very embarrassing thing. No one wants that what he has used or left to eat is seen by others. I don't know if I am shy or scared. Most of the people who throw garbage are head down. Under the enthusiasm of the volunteers, they rushed through the rubbish and left in a hurry.

For the first time, Sherry went to throw a takeaway box with cool skin. There was still some soup in the box. The volunteer aunt shouted in Shanghai with her: "Little sister, this is not right, you have to filter it out."

She is now used to pouring the remaining residue and soup into the toilet because she is afraid of falling into the kitchen to block the sewer. A circle of grease is quickly formed in the toilet at home.

Sherry's friend joked that in the future, throwing takeaway garbage must take the takeaway list off the bag, or else throwing the wrong aunt to see which one you are.

After garbage sorting, this is no longer a secret. Sherry's community neighborhood committee will issue a magnetic card to the head of the household, throwing a garbage brush once, and the tenant without the card will report the number. Each garbage point has a dedicated volunteer to record the number of each litter. Sherry rents a room alone, without a magnetic card, and reports the number every time.

The district is responsible for recording an old Shanghai aunt. She sat on the small bench, and when someone came to throw garbage, she asked the number of the building number. This is to facilitate the “investigation” of households that do not classify waste. If a household does not throw garbage for a long time, it is easy to go to the "blacklist" and the neighborhood committee will pay attention to "what is the garbage?"

Some communities implement a two-dimensional code for each household, and open the garbage room door to scan the garbage by scanning the code; some communities have installed monitoring at the garbage point, to supervise someone sneaking in the middle of the night to litter - this kind of thing happens.

The most secretive private affairs have also been "put on the table." Some people wondered, what kind of garbage does the used condom belong to? If it is picked up by the volunteers in public, is it not the best? "This is not good for everyone to live a happy life." Wang Xi said.

No time


In all anxiety, time-limited littering is almost confusing for almost all white-collar workers. The garbage room in Sherry Community is open every day from 7 am to 9 pm and from 6 pm to 8 pm. The other trial communities in Shanghai are basically around this time. At 7 p.m., people who throw garbage in the community are in a constant stream. But more than 90% of them are elderly people. Young white-collar workers are not working overtime at the moment, or they are squeezing the subway.

Sherry rented a room alone. She went out at 7:40 every morning and arrived at the company at 8:30 on time. She usually takes away the garbage when she goes to work, but sometimes she forgets that if she forgets it, she can't throw it. Every day, Sherry's subway line 2 runs through Shanghai and connects Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Hongqiao Airport and Pudong Airport. She often waits until the peak period has passed before going back. After returning home, she usually "feels tired, I have to go back and lie down first, then lie down and say." She lives on the fifth floor, has no elevator, and does not want to go downstairs.

Wang Xi "I feel that the time setting is very tasteless." Although she does not have to go to work on time, the news industry often needs to work at night, which means that Wang Xi usually does not start very early. She used to go out at ten o'clock when the garbage room was closed. Now she sorts the garbage and puts it in the doorway according to wherever the garbage goes. "You manage it yourself, I don't care."

Mulan used to use the time of walking the dog to throw garbage, but now it won't work.

The community she lives in requires garbage disposal time from 7:00 to 9:00 every morning and from 6:30 to 8:30 in the evening. She got up at 6:30 every morning to walk the dog, finished the dog, and the garbage room had not opened. Waiting for her to prepare breakfast and lunch for herself, make up the makeup, and pack it up when it is ready to go out at about 8:15. She didn't have time to go around the other side of the community to throw garbage. "Although it only takes two or three minutes, it is also very tight, I will not throw it again." She usually goes to work in the evening.

Cornmeal, which claims to be a non-mainstream "social animal", is completely out of hand with the time of throwing garbage. Cornmeal works at a record store. He usually goes to work every afternoon at 1:00 pm and gets off work at 8 pm. She recently started watching movies early in the film festival. She threw a few rubbish, but I don’t know what to do afterward.

There are policies and measures to counter. If you can't keep up with the time of throwing garbage, some people will pile it up in the house, some people will pile up in the corridor, and some people will throw it in the trash can that has not been sorted by garbage.

When Sherry ran in the community night, he saw someone sneaking garbage and going away from the closed garbage room. Her colleague joked that he had to carry the rubbish back to the company and let the company's cleaning aunt classify. Mulan often sees people in the community deliberately taking the garbage out of the community and throwing them into the small trash cans and even the ground that has not been classified.

What's more interesting is that various kinds of garbage dumping businesses have also emerged. On the wall of the unit building, there is a post-delivery service advertisement, which is charged on the floor. The bottom layer is 30 yuan per month, and the upper level is 50 yuan per month. If you are hungry, the app has launched a new “generation of garbage” business. The business needs the user to sort the garbage first, and then the younger brother throws it into the designated trash can. The single charge is 12 yuan, the errand range is no more than 3 kilometers; even the household garbage shredder appears, and the garbage is not left at home.

Arrived on July 1st


Many of the white-collar workers in Shanghai are working alone. They rent out or rent a house alone. Where can I put so many trash cans?" Some people worry that garbage classification will affect Relationships with roommates. Cornmeal observed that the roommate's garbage was still littered, and sometimes the recyclable garbage was placed in the wet garbage. She was considering whether to communicate with the roommate.

Young people in the anxiety of garbage classification think of various methods. It has been suggested that if there is no way to throw or divide it yourself, you can also go to the corridor and paste the QR code to help the neighbors to throw garbage. When Wang Xi came home one night, he found a piece of paper in the corridor, which read: Thank you very much for helping me throw the garbage at the door. I am very embarrassed because I will not put the garbage in the door again. Thank you. It seems to be another person who has no time to throw garbage at his own pace.

In the busy life of Shanghai, to save time and cost, take-away and online shopping have become a favorite way for white-collar workers to consume. During the 618 periods, Sherry purchased a long-awaited hanging iron. Regardless of paper towels or shampoo, all her daily necessities are purchased online. Due to professional needs, clothing collocation Mulan often buys a lot of accessories online.
Because of the garbage classification, they began to consider whether it should be "decremented."

Wang Xi, who is afraid of trouble, has felt that the garbage classification will make her "forced to become a person of minimalism." "I didn't even want to get coffee. Even after I figured out that the filter paper and coffee grounds had to be separated, I continued to throw them in the wet garbage. After that, I didn't even ask for the takeaway, go out and eat."

The news report said that after the office workers finished breakfast, they could not throw the rest of the breakfast, corncob, and other wet garbage into the garbage bin on the side of the road. If they were thrown, the urban management law enforcement department ordered the immediate correction and refused to correct it. A fine of not more than two yuan is required. Sherry once finished eating bananas outside, didn't know where to throw banana peels, and took banana peels all the way home.

Other untested communities in Shanghai have begun to withdraw their barrels. On the morning when the trash can was withdrawn, Dora saw that on the space where the trash can was placed, a white and a blue plastic garbage bag were placed together, and the surrounding area was empty and they looked extraordinarily lonely. Dora hasn't started throwing rubbish yet. She feels that she has to be ready at home and should check it carefully. She has now prepared seven trash cans at home.

At 7 p.m., the horn of the garbage sorting was reminded on the streets of the city. The garbage rooms in some communities are still open 24 hours, and people are still throwing as casually as they used to. Just thinking about it every time I threw it: I will wait until July 1st.

The outer packaging is upgraded for one round, marked with the classification of garbage, such as how to classify quick-frozen dumplings, although the package of frozen dumplings is now about how to cook dumplings. The marked garbage-containing outer packaging can remind everyone when they throw garbage, which seems to relieve some anxiety.

It has long been described in the Book of Shangjun, and the things of the ancestors are not outdated.

Source: (Katja News)


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