Ecology of Chinese cities is under threat. Environmentalists are sounding the alarm, because about two-thirds of Chinese cities "have to blockade the heap of garbage. According to estimates of experts, in the cities of the country on 20 thousand hectares of land had accumulated approximately 6 billion tons of domestic garbage, and this "mountain" grows by 4,8 per cent per year.



1. Woman with her daughter standing in the doorway littered with debris, cleaning the house in anticipation of a car in the center of Beijing. Rubbish is piling up everywhere in China, causing problems with sanitation, and all because of the rapid jump in the country from poverty to wealth. "If the government takes steps to solve our problems with garbage, China may face a health crisis in the next 10 years" - warns Yanshen Liu, an expert on waste management at the University of Peking. (Greg Baker / AP) (Greg Baker / AP)



2. Workers sort the rubbish into the recycling center in Beijing. Over the past twenty years the volume of garbage in China has tripled, reaching 300 million tons per year, according Not Yongfeng, an expert in the processing of garbage at Peking University Tsynhua.The Americans are still far ahead of China in terms of elimination of waste, but for China, this problem is a sharp turn from the time when the family - then mostly rural and poor - all have used several times."Previously, with the debris was not a problem, because we did not have supermarkets, packages and an endless line of goods - says no. – And suddenly, the government panicked because of the mountains of garbage, filling all around. (Greg Baker / AP) (Greg Baker / AP)



3. Girl washes rice in a pot at the collection point for secondary raw materials in Beijing. Protests in China's cities leads to the accumulation of debris in the villages and suburbs. Last year, Beijing residents gathered at the Ministry of Environment, protesting against the unpleasant smell from the landfill and demanding set there incinerator. In July, had sketched a plan of the furnace, and the dump was closed for 4 years before. In eastern Beijing authorities have invested millions of dollars to build landfills and incinerators that meet hygienic standards. This happened only after the 200 000 people signed a petition against the unpleasant odor. (Greg Baker / AP) (Greg Baker / AP)



4. Workers browsing garbage in Changchun, northeastern China. At least 85% of all rubbish in China (which is about 7 million tons) is in the dumps, the majority - are not licensed in the garbage in the suburbs. Some crashed just plastic and fiberglass. Rain render heavy metals, ammonia and bacteria in groundwater and soil, and a pair of expansion into the air methane and carbon dioxide. (AP) (AP)



5. Resident of the village is looking at a huge landfill near the town Chzhanlidun, the smell of which is felt long before it appears on the horizon. In less than five years of landfill in Zhengzhou exceeded by the volume of settlement in 1000. Peaches and cherries on the trees killed by insect, attracted by the stench of landfill. The fields are not processed and contaminated with toxic waste. Every day about 100 tons of garbage comes from Zhengzhou - the provincial capital of 8 million inhabitants. (Andy Wong / AP) (Andy Wong / AP)



6.Truck unloads garbage dump near Chzhanliduna. During the visit, a reporter agency «Associated Press» along a narrow road leading to Chzhanlidun, lined up a whole queue of more than a hundred trucks, stuffed with ground up debris. All they were waiting for their turn to drop fetid cargo in a landfill area of 20 football fields. (Andy Wong / AP) (Andy Wong / AP)



7.Resident Chzhanliduna shows their damaged plants. Landfill not only poisons the air and land, but also relationships. Some residents say that their views on the landfill no one asked, they suspect that the representatives of the Communist Party paid for the establishment of the landfill. Sometimes the villagers were arguing with the driver or even try to block the path to the dump trucks, which is located 30 km from their locality. (Andy Wong / AP) (Andy Wong / AP)



8. He is a child of Chzhanliduna skin disease caused by, according to his mother, who was the pollution from a nearby landfill. Wang Ling - representative of the Ministry of Environment Chzhanliduna - said that the dump was created on the polyethylene, to protect the land beneath it. Results of tests of local soil, water and air in 2006 and this year showed that all the relevant hygiene standards ", - he said. Villagers claim that the polyethylene in many places torn up and covered only part of the landfill. (Andy Wong / AP) (Andy Wong / AP)



9. The truck dumped the rubbish that is sorted there and then working at the dump in Changchun. After a millennium in the image of rural society, China is starting to urbanize. Busy families are increasingly refuse to fresh food in favor of convenience foods, consumption of which increased by 10,8% from 2000 to 2008, that on 4,2% more than in Asia. By 2013, the market semi-finished and packaged food products may grow to 195 billion dollars - a 74% higher than this year. (AP) (AP)



10. Working on top of a garbage dump mountains in Guiyang, Southwest China. One portion of waste in China finally began to burn, but a study by the Chinese government, found that incinerators emit 10 times more dioxin in causing cancer and other diseases than in the same United States. (AP) (AP)