The Urban problems include: Pollution, Poverty, Traffic
Sanitation and Slums
Sanitation is a big issue in Beijing, as they are producing 16 hundred tons of waste a day. In Beijing they are very worried about how much waste they are producing this is shown as they have created public toilets for only one person at a time. Officials are also collecting waste from the toilets every half hour as the so many people using them. In beijing they have a very bad toilet sanitation problem which is costing them $57 million to fix.
If you live in a slum in Beijing you are named an ‘ant’. This is because slums are crowded and boundaries are made. The biggest rooms in the slums are 20m2 but most are less and even half of that. Most people go to Beijing to look for a better future which involves a better job. But because Beijing is over populated the dream future they are looking for don’t always happen as the job market is saturated. People have no choice but to live in these slums.
Waste Problems
China produces around 300 million tons of waste a year, the large majority of which comes from cities. Currently, Chinese urban waste management services generally collect unsorted municipal solid waste to be disposed of in landfills or waste incinerators around the periphery of the city or further out into the countryside. Even if separate bins are available for recyclable and non-recyclable waste, government waste services do not have the capacity to operate a recycling system; the separated waste is bundled together into one truck all the same.
Pollution
The Pollution is a huge problem in Beijing and is mainly caused by local construction dustmotor, coal burning, dust storms and vehicles. In 2013 heavy smog had taken over the city, populating paper masks in Beijing.
Water pollution is another humongous problem, drinking water is extremely unsafe leaving people drinking from human and animal waste, reused water and radiation. Many of Bejings people who have had liver and stomach cancer have been also blamed on water pollution. Water pollution is particularly house hold swage which is being held in rivers and lakes without being treated.
Solutions
Pollution
Preventing and treating water pollution. Beijing will protect surface and underground drinking water sources, raise its wastewater treatment capacity and conduct a comprehensive treatment of surface water. They’re attempting to reduce the total amount of coal use. They will ban loose burning of coal.
A Sustainable City
Beijing will continue to improve the quality of its urban environment with continued emphasis on the prevention and reduction of air pollution in its urban area.