{"id":2935,"date":"2019-07-12T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/a-sort-of-eco-dictatorship-shanghai-grapples-with-strict-new-recycling-laws"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:14:23","slug":"a-sort-of-eco-dictatorship-shanghai-grapples-with-strict-new-recycling-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A sort of eco-dictatorship&#8217;: Shanghai grapples with strict new recycling laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules \u2013 but some say the answer is all about pigs<\/p>\n<p>For the last two weeks, Shanghai residents have grappled with a singular question: \u201cWhat kind of trash are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is aimed at the city\u2019s daily 22,000 tonnes of household waste that, according to new rules implemented on 1 July, must be sorted into one of four colour-coded bins: dry, wet, recyclable and hazardous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/12\/a-sort-of-eco-dictatorship-shanghai-grapples-with-strict-new-recycling-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules \u2013 but some say the answer is all about pigsFor the last two weeks, Shanghai residents have grappled with a singular question: \u201cWhat kind of trash are you?\u201dThe que&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,65,303,302,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-recycling","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}