Recently, China vowed an all-out nation-wide effort to promote the classification of household garbage. In early July, Beijing announced it would follow Shanghai's suit on mandatory household garbage sorting. Guangzhou has also begun to promote household garbage sorting in its urban and rural areas since mid-July.

On August 13, a launch ceremony of the campaign was held at the Boao Forum for Asia International Conference Center in Hainan.

GPHL’s chairman Li Chuyuan delivers a speech at the launch ceremony.

If you live in one of the 32 cities listed below, you can use a Taobao or Alipay app to scan the drug electronic supervision code (中国药品电子监管码) on old medicine boxes. Click to enter the “return expired medicine” section (过期药回收), fill in the information needed, and then your expired drugs will be picked up by Cainiao Express (菜鸟快递).

Period: August 13 - 31, 2019

List of 32 cities

Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xi’an, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shijiazhuang, Shenyang, Hefei, Jinan, Ningbo, Wuxi, Taiyuan, Changsha, Nanchang, Kunming, Changchun, Jilin, Linyi, Foshan, Xiamen, Tsitsihar, Dalian, Qingdao, Shaoxing, and Harbin.

GPHL, last month, rolled out its campaign to more than 6,000 drugstores in more than 200 cities around the country. The campaign lasted for one week in July in Guangzhou and for one to three days in other cities. Please visit your local drugstore for more detailed information. You will also get coupons or gifts for bringing expired medicine to the drugstores.

List of drugstores of the campaign

Author: Monica Liu

Editor: Chris