Comment on "How to lay garbage to waste, safely" (China Daily, Oct 12,)

The poor waste disposal habits of Chinese begin at an early age. When children see their parents and elders throw rubbish on streets without a care, they are bound to copy these habits and think there is nothing wrong with them.

Even many shopkeepers are not free of such poor habits. They carefully sweep their shops, leaving them spick and span, but don't think twice before throwing the garbage on pavements or roads, which either rot there or are cleared by someone else.

Spitting and throwing cigarette butts on the road are other examples of bad sanitary and waste disposal habits. Some people don't even clean their dinner tables after eating in cafs and fast-food restaurants, which they are supposed to.

Hands, on China Daily website

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(China Daily 10/31/2012 page9)