Find out what waste is being dumped near your home and campaign against it. Sue Robson discovers why China is the greenest country of them all. In southern China, every bit of land is used not once but three times. Rice grows in water. Fish swim in the water amid the rice.
Ducks paddle on the water, above the rice and fish.
Travelling around China I was continually amazed by the ingenuity with which the Chinese use and re-use every scrap of what we often dismiss as waste. China has a fifth of the world s population, but only seven per cent of its arable land - mainly in the densely populated eastern strip. In a way they are the world s ultimate green consumers. Take that paddy field, well stocked with fish, rice and ducks. The Chinese produce an extremely high yield, largely without recourse to chemicals since these are too expensive for most people.