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Thank you JanJal.

As a followup discussion of this topic, for those mistreated or scammed by online or actual business entities in China, you can ask a Chinese speaking friend to dial 12315 to make an official complaint against the company that wronged you.

This is the national consumer protection hotline monitored by The State Administration for Industry and Commerce, as celebrated on March 15 ("315"), aka Global Consumer Rights Day.

In light of shaohei anti-corruption commitments, these matters are taken more seriously than previous years.

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OP GracieMei, your thread is still going strong, yet you're leaving China. I noticed your garage sale ad in the classifieds. May your next destination be more ideal.

JanJal, I believe at Kunming's restaurant level, there are liquid organic recycling for leftover hotpot/maocai/suancaiyu/mixian soup base.

You've might've seen transport vans collect large blue plastic containers w/ black lids filled with liquid organics wastes from Kunming restaurants.

My guess is restaurants pay a small fee to remove liquid wastes from their kitchens. The health ministry probably do not allow licensed restaurant dumping of liquid wastes into ordinary trash bins.

So where do they go?

Perhaps mom & pop ventures of liquid organics transport businesses sell their reclaimed supply to rural farms as pig feed. Hopefully, most are transported to outskirt lands to be composted. But I remember Chinese documentaries showed how liquid organic wastes undergo filtration to be reprocessed and retrieved as tap water.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Civilized Kunming

JanJal, I seek your counsel as you're now the de facto resident recycling guru. [attaching recycling pin badge on your chest]

I've been hording organic wastes such as egg shells, inedible parts of tomatoes, whatnot. I collect them in plastic bags. Is that what you do? Do you throw the plastic bags away in community trash bins outside? As of yet, there aren't any red bins for organic waste.

Also, do custodians separate these organic waste when they sort out the trash? Do they manually remove them from my plastic bag? Or is that done at the next municipal dump stop?

And to tie this subject to current affairs of proposed incinerators in Wuhan. Do they incinerate organic waste separately or lump them with their plastic containers? My understanding is these large scale incinerator plants are expensive. The cheaper ones aren't effective in filtration. My hunch is they probably don't have the wherewithal to individually sort wastes prior to incineration, let alone only incinerate non-hazardous organics. This perhaps explains the nimbyism and local unrest.

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Just Hot Jan, I need to inform you that Just Hot is the subsidiary of JiaHua Bakeries. Although TKP's Just Hot targets higher-end market segments, the apple doesn't fall from its tree... it's no wonder their ginormous croissants can't compare with the croissant quality of their direct competitor, Bon Appétit, which is situated not far from them on the same B1 level.

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Thank you with sincerity for doing your part in being their beacon of light now, and glimmer of hope for their future.

Touching base on the challenges of recruiting credentialed teachers to rural outskirts.

Though some may scoff at technology and change from traditional pedagogy/curriculum. Perhaps the anecdote in that domain lies somewhere in the advent synergy of 5G, A.I, and satellite internet....

to bring real-time machine learning based academia to backwater classrooms in virtual form. Reaching not just hundreds of millions of rural children in China. But bridging education access gap to those less fortunate families in the Middle East, India/Pakistan, South East Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world.

Perhaps a ground-up, global multinational cooperation effort with coalition of governments' subsidies to incentivize private innovations need to occur to make this a reality.

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No cloudy, Starbucks aren't enough to give rural children the opportunities for a brighter future.

Building more schools and hiring a legion of well-trained teachers to foster a better education system may help.

The government needs to allocate more funds to building and revamping these countryside schools.

And where may local governments get that money outside Beijing?

Perhaps by selling or leasing prime real estate locations at exorbitant prices to foreign investors, such Hang Lung Properties.

By permitting these deep-pocketed developers to build skyscrapers at sought-after locations, value of land further increases, hence their selling/leasing prices resulting in higher revenues (inc. corporate taxes from ensuing business & offices) for funding public projects such as said public education.

This is where the corporate buzzwords you so despise come into play. Accountability, transparency, and oversight. Without which, corrupt-prone local officials may end up pocketing the hongbaos from developers to be transferred to their private Swiss bank accounts used by their own privileged children studying aboard.

With accountability, transparency, and oversight... hundreds of billions in funds are more than enough to provide poverty stricken children the first steps in the right path to a brighter future.

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Costco officially opened in Shanghai today. First store in China.

If and when this hypermarket chain opens in Kunming, the usual complainers would instead be raving in joy, and overlooking how such "soulless" investment resources and land allocation would be better served alleviating poverty.

Sometimes it comes down to whether new projects tailor or serve one's own needs.

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