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It has been the common goal pursued by the household waste management at home and abroad from the terminal disposal based on engineering technical measures to green management of household waste focusing on quantity reduction and reclamation utilization. Therefore, China’s urban environmental management should not only introduce new technologies and processes to implement the harmless treatment of household waste, but also pay attention to integrating it with China’s conditions, drawing on the existing household waste quantity reduction and reclamation measures of other countries, achieving source reduction of household waste, and truly putting the management of urban household waste into the track of sustainable green management. Therefore, the following measures are recommended to take:
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Yuan, J. (2014). Green Management of Household Waste and Source Reduction. In: Li, X., Pan, J. (eds) China Green Development Index Report 2012. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54178-0_25
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