The lantern festival will fall on this Sunday, Feb 5th. Usually the festival means the end of Chinese New Year celebration.
How to deal with the flowers brought fro the festival? The following suggestions may help.
(Photo: Nanfang Daily)
1. Continue to cultivatethe flowers
Some flowers, such as butterfly orchid and chrysanthemum, can be cultivated after the holiday. They might bloom next year, which saves us money and reduces waste.
2. Send to the temporary flower collection points
Guangzhou recently set up a total of 737 temporary collection points for New Year flowers and kumquats in all of its districts.
Click to check specific locations of New Year flower collection points in each district.
(Photo: Nanfang Daily)
Residents can simply handle the large New Year flowers before sending them to the collection point. For example, break the branches of large peach blossoms, or tighten them with ropes.
At a collection point, workers will disassemble flowers and send soil and intact flowerpots to landscaping companies for recycling and utilization. The flowers that can survive or easily regenerate will be replanted. While those withered flowers will be decomposed and made into compost. Ceramics and plastics that cannot be reused will be sent to domestic garbage disposal companies.
Author: Ariel
Editor: Wing, Nan, Monica, Jerry
