A resident puts sorted household waste into a garbage can at a community in Jiulongpo District in Chongqing, southwest China, June 27, 2019. Chongqing has been striving to promote garbage sorting in recent years. A garbage classification system has covered 680,000 households from 1,796 communities of 39 streets and towns in the downtown area of Chongqing. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

While some Shanghai residents are struggling with a new garbage-sorting campaign, tourists from Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province have apparently been scared off by the strict policy, the Morning Herald reported on Monday.

While some Shanghai residents are struggling with a new garbage-sorting campaign, tourists from Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province have apparently been scared off by the strict policy, the Morning Herald reported on Monday.

"I'm not against the policy, I'm just not confident that I could sort the garbage very well," a woman surnamed Wu who canceled her trip to Shanghai with her children, was quoted by Changsha's Morning Herald as saying.

Wu became worried when she saw a popular online garbage-sorting test that asked, "Is milk tea dry garbage or wet garbage?" 

Wu said she and her family will visit Shanghai when they learn which trash bin is for dry refuse and which is for recyclables, wrote the paper without explaining why it was so difficult for her to distinguish between the two.

Wu traveled to another city near Shanghai.

Worried that there are likely other tourists like Wu who are concerned about Shanghai's new garbage-sorting regulations, a travel agency in Changsha has provided its guides with garbage-sorting training. The guides will also teach tourists how to sort garbage once they arrive in Shanghai, and there's no need to worry, the paper said.

Morning Herald