Ecological passage built for Games
(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-06-13 11:34
Two years from now, the Olympic Forest Park that covers a land of 680
hectares will spring up in the north of Beijing city.
The Fifth Ring Road will cross the park and divide it into two parts. The
north part is planned to be natural intensified forests, while the south will be
an ecological forest garden.
The ecological passage stretching over the Fifth Ring Road will link the two
parts. This passage will become the largest one in Chinese mainland. It will be
200 meters long and 60-120 meters wide.
Different kinds of trees and shrubs will be planted in the passage, which can
create a natural environment suitable for insects and small animals to live in.
Butterflies, bees, fireflies and other creatures can move freely and thus make
the park a paradise of natural living things.
It is reported that the Beijing Olympics will be the first to conduct
innocuous disposal of all kinds of industrial and domestic garbage. On the
construction sites, wastewater will have to be reclaimed. Sanitary landfills
will also be established. Used batteries and ink cartridges will be reclaimed in
designated places. Domestic garbage will be subjected to classification and
harmless treatment.
Where there exists people, there exists garbage. During the Sidney Olympics,
80% of garbage were recycled, and the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing will reach
a garbage-recycling rate of 90%.
How will this be realized? After the garbage in the park is classified, 10%
of the inorganic rubbish will be transported to other disposal stations, and the
rest reproduced as organic fertilizers for plants in the park. In this way, the
garbage problem can be solved by the park itself.
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