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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2231)	12/24/2003 12:59:51 PM
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China going green over Olympics December 24, 2003 - 4:13PM Print this article Email to a friend China's capital wants to clean up its act before the 2008 Summer Olympics, finding better ways to dispose of its millions of tonnes of garbage. "We want to host the most wonderful Games in history," Beijing municipal administrative committee director Chen Wenzhan said today. "To hold the Olympics, we not only need good stadiums but also a great environment." That is a tall order - the city of 13 million produces a total of 4.2 million tonnes of garbage every year, 90 per cent of which gets buried. To realise its ambitions, the city government plans to build 15 new garbage treatment facilities capable of disposing of 12,500 tonnes of rubbish every day. Environmental issues have been brought to the forefront as Beijing gets ready to host the world's biggest sports event. A total of $US3.6 billion ($A4.9 billion) has been earmarked for investment in environmental and other transportation projects. The city is undertaking 20 major environmental projects, including replacing coal with natural gas, curbing car exhaust emissions, planting trees and treating sewage. advertisement advertisement Medical waste, totalling 40 tonnes a day, poses a particular problem after the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome earlier this year, which killed a total of 193 people in Beijing. The SARS epidemic forced city officials to pay more attention to the treatment of medical waste, which was previously up to the individual hospitals. Now, it is all transported to three central locations, where professional waste-disposal companies handle it in a safer manner. In the years leading up to Olympics, the city government plans to build two centralised disposal facilities for medical waste, with a capacity of handling 65 tonnes day, they said. AFP smh.com.au