such language not appropriate Dennis

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.

Dennis, which school and name of job agency?

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.

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.