After the Lantern Festival, the New Year's flowers and tangerines that decorate every household in the Spring Festival have been "taken off the shelves" one after another, and Guangzhou ushered in the peak period of disposal of discarded New Year's flowers and tangerins. This year, a total of 744 temporary collection points have been set up in the city to facilitate the public to sort and put in the New Year flowers and oranges. On March 4, the reporter of Guangzhou followed the Municipal Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau to visit Yuexiu, Baiyun and other districts, and saw that the discarded New Year tangerines were "rejuvenated" by making enzymes, processing jewelry, and replanting.
Yuexiu: Make eco-friendly enzymes from discarded tangerines.
In Dongshan Street, Yuexiu District, sanitation workers first dispose of the waste mandarins at the collection point of discarded tangerines by "four separations" (flower branches, flower mud, flower pots, and mandarins), and then send the picked discarded mandarins to the local garbage sorting and education center.
Under the guidance of the staff, the volunteers washed the oranges, then put the brown sugar, water and other ingredients and tangerines in a certain proportion into the container, stirred evenly, and finally sealed them, marked the production time, and waited for the eco-friendly enzymes to be made.
Li Song, deputy director of the Dongshan Sub-district Office, said: "The activity of making environmentally friendly enzymes has been carried out in our street for eight years, and the effect of garbage reduction is very obvious, and our street can make about 40 barrels of enzymes a year. ”
It is reported that Dongshan Street began to popularize the method of discarding New Year's oranges to residents by hanging banners, distributing promotional materials, and issuing WeChat notices, and set up temporary collection points for New Year's oranges to promote the special project of discarded New Year's oranges. The tangerines put by the residents are made into environmentally friendly enzymes, which can be used for household sanitation and cleaning, watering flowers and vegetables, and realizing "turning waste into treasure".
The use of waste annual flowers and tangerines to make environmental protection enzymes has been fully promoted in 18 streets in the district, and the streets and communities will provide the environmental protection enzymes as publicity materials for free to residents in daily publicity and community activities, so as to convey the concept of low-carbon environmental protection and guide more residents to actively participate in the classification of domestic waste. ”
The relevant person in charge of the urban management department of Yuexiu District told reporters that a total of 59 temporary collection points have been set up in the district this year, which are managed by special personnel. In accordance with the requirements of garbage classification, sanitation workers will carry out "four separations" of the collected waste annual flowers and tangerins. For the separated flower pots, residents can choose to keep them for recycling or dispose of them according to the material category; Flower mud is rich in nutrients and can be used as organic fertilizer for community greening or inclusion in residual mud treatment; Flowers and trees can be replanted or recycled; For the tangerines that are not replanted, the fruits can be picked to make eco-friendly enzymes to make full use.
According to statistics, as of February 29, Yuexiu District has processed a total of 703 tons of waste such as New Year's oranges, an increase of 138 tons compared with 2023. The resource utilization rate of discarded mandarins reached 97%, which effectively promoted the classification and treatment of garbage.
Baiyun: Exploring a new path for peach blossom replanting and reprocessing.
The stone horse peach blossoms in Junhe Street in Baiyun District are famous far and wide. In the peach blossom planting base in Shima Village, flower farmers process the discarded peach blossom branches into handicrafts, and replant the potted peach blossoms to achieve secondary use.
Not far from the collection point of Shima's discarded New Year's flowers, Li Zhiyu, director of the Shima Peach Blossom Professional Cooperative, is dismantling the discarded peach blossom branches and selecting suitable materials to process them into bracelets, hairpins and other jewelry handicrafts on site.
According to reports, in the past two years, the cooperative has explored the reprocessing of peach blossoms and peach trees that cannot be replanted, and the peach wood jewelry produced has been exhibited and sold in various agricultural exhibitions, which has achieved initial results. "The average price of jewelry is about 20 yuan, and the peach wood is good, and everyone likes it. The person in charge introduced.
Not far from the jewelry processing point, there is the pot peach multi-planting base of the Shima Peach Blossom Professional Cooperative. Here, Li Zhihong, a flower farmer with more than 20 years of experience in peach blossom planting, is replanting potted peaches. He first dismantled the potted peach blossoms, separated the potting soil, and then planted the peach blossoms back into the farmland. In Li Zhihong's hands, the peach blossoms will be reborn and can be sold again the following year. The price of a multi-planted peach blossom sapling is as low as 50 yuan, and some of the better growth can be sold for more than 300 yuan.
According to the relevant person in charge of the urban management department of Baiyun District, this year, the district has set up 100 temporary collection points for discarded New Year flowers and oranges, and assigned special personnel to be responsible for supervision. Through the distribution of leaflets, classification supplies, on-site explanations, etc., to popularize the knowledge of classification and processing of New Year's flowers and tangerines to residents, and guide residents to classify and put them. At the same time, it cooperates with the Baiyun District Supply and Marketing Cooperatives to dispose of the best annual flowers and tangerines as resources.
He Jialu, director of the Baiyun District Supply and Marketing Association, told reporters that in addition to Shima Village, other collected waste New Year tangerines will also be transported to the cooperative disposal point of the District Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and eligible New Year flowers and New Year tangerines will be replanted and recycled.
Originally, the cost of planting peach blossoms was relatively high, but now the peach blossoms discarded by residents are used for replanting, which can greatly reduce the planting cost and generate secondary economic value, which is also the implementation of the concept of circular economy development. "For the annual flowers that cannot be replanted, in addition to the branches will be used to make ornaments and handicrafts, the branches can also be broken and used for composting of podocarpus, which can effectively improve the utilization rate of resources.
Text: Guangzhou**New Flower City Reporter: Quan Jie Correspondent: Cheng Guangju, Xiao Shutongtu Guangzhou**New Flower City Reporter: Wu ZiliangGuangzhou**New Flower City Editor: Wu Di.