Subscribe RSSBEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Sanitation workers in Beijing and Shanghai were unsparing at work Monday morning, the first day of the Year of Dragon, cleaning up more than 1,000 tonnes of fireworks rubbish.
More than 30,000 sanitation workers in Shanghai started to brush the half-burned but still brightly colored cardboard up shortly after midnight. By Monday morning, they'd collected close to 970 tonnes of fireworks rubbish, roughly the same amount as last year.
The fireworks debris was only a fraction of the 8,500 tonnes of swill they collected during the first day of the holiday, according to sources with the Shanghai Environment Industry.
The total domestic waste and fireworks debris Shanghai's residents created during the furlough were expected to hit 58,500 tonnes, they said.
The company was operating 11 garbage cleanup vehicles each with a carrying talent of 500 tonnes, 25 other smaller container vehicles and 34 bulk ships so as to timely thrill the garbage for pollution-free disposal.
