International experience of garden waste recycling and its inspiration to China

Abstract

The amount of garden waste produced in China is on the increase annually, but its recycling treatment attracts little attention, so that the recycling treatment rate stays low, which has gradually become an important issue that cannot be ignored for urban management. In order to better promote the treatment and re-utilization of garden waste in China, preserve resources, and achieve the sustainable development of urban ecology, a review is conducted in this paper on the experience of those advanced countries such as the United States, Japan and others in the policy-making, financial support and other practices of garden waste recycling, so as to provide the basis and reference required for the scientific, sustainable and reasonable practice of garden waste treatment and re-utilization in China.