China to spray garbage with Febreze

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Beijing is to install 100 deodorant guns at a stinking landfill site on the edge of the city in a bid to dampen complaints about the capital's rubbish crisis.

The giant fragrance sprays will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site, one of several hundred tips that are the focus of growing public concerns about sanitation, environmental health and a runaway consumer culture.

Municipal authorities say they will also apply more plastic layers to cover the site in response to furious protests by local residents who have to put up with the stench when the wind blows in their direction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/26/beijing-rubbish-deodorant

[ScottThuy 140]

Whats next? enclose the entire site and install stacks with scrubbers? seems like they want the dump to have that spring morning fresh feeling....

[Darnell 8,479]

febreeze / febreze is NOT fragrance. Sorry.

But I digress.

That stench is from rotting food.

The green stuff can be used for compost,

and the meat stuff can be used to make polymers.

China is cheap - there's an ecological / green solution, but (in the country of solar panels) - somehow that branch of Government decided to 'do something else'.