Intelligent kitchen waste collection stations were put into trial use in Yu’er Community, Shekou Subdistrict, Nanshan District recently for over 100 restaurants and fruit and vegetable stores, Shenzhen Evening News reported.

An intelligent kitchen waste collection station stands by an alleyway behind a restaurant in Shekou.

Each of these stores was registered into the intelligent system and was dispatched with a kitchen waste throwing card and an exclusive code to record the store’s behavior in garbage sorting. With information collected in the intelligent system, Shekou Subdistrict could help stores with kitchen waste sorting and stay informed with the stations’ garbage collection and transportation situation.

Community workers check the functioning of the kitchen waste collection system.

Subdistrict officials and volunteers who are responsible for garbage sorting will train the stores on how to sort the trash and how to use the kitchen waste throwing card and will guide them sort kitchen waste properly.

In the future, Shekou Subdistrict will expand the use of the intelligent kitchen waste collection stations to better improve garbage sorting and management mechanism to the restaurants and fruit and vegetable stores in Shekou.