On Chinese New Year's Eve, Yancheng is filled with a joyful and festive atmosphere, and as the crowd of revelers gradually disperses, leaving red "cannon crumbs" everywhere. On January 1, the reporter learned from the Municipal Environmental Sanitation Affairs Center that after 6 hours of hard work, the sanitation department cleaned up and transported more than 10 tons of "cannon debris" garbage across the Chinese New Year's Eve along the river.
It is understood that according to the situation of fireworks and firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve in previous years, the city's sanitation department has made advance arrangements for key areas such as the waterfront platform on Jiefang Road on the Bund on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, and made careful arrangements to send additional sanitation workers and salvage vessels to carry out cleaning and salvage operations. From 4 o'clock in the morning on January 1, more than 150 sanitation cadres, workers and volunteers carried out cleaning, salvage and transportation operations, they will clean up the "cannon debris" into piles, water to extinguish the remaining fires, prevent spontaneous combustion in the cleaning process, timely salvage fireworks garbage such as color bead tubes in the water, and pick up and clean up the fireworks tubes thrown in the green belt. At 10 o'clock in the morning, a total of more than 10 tons of "cannon debris" garbage were cleaned up in the scenery along the river, and the clean and refreshing appearance of the scenery belt along the river was restored.
The person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Sanitation Affairs Center appealed to the citizens and friends that the residues of fireworks and firecrackers after setting off should not be littered at will, and should be classified into the corresponding garbage cans to reduce the workload of sanitation workers and jointly maintain the image of a civilized city. (Reporter Hu Yahua, correspondent Zhu Hui, editor Tang Jin).