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Page 389. DISCUSSIONS AND REFLECTIONSIn this charter, the obstac1es and opportunities for carrying out the integratedapproach are discussed. Also, some associated questions with municipal solid wastemanagement are thought over again during this thesis work. These questions areaddressed to betteTunderstand the thesis.9.1 The Obstacles and OpportunitiesShortage of finance to invest the municipal solid waste treatment plant and sortingwaste can be Olleof big obstac1esin implementing this integrated approach. But dueto the rapid economic growth rate, the international funding is enormously flowing inChina. So, it is not very difficult to borrow the international finance, especially for theloan of importing equipment.Lack of environmental awareness is Olle of the other big obstac1es. The wastemanagement and sorting waste education difficult to be carry out at the verybeginning. So, the municipality has to persist, especially when no obvious resultwould be expected during the initial stages. Management should be competent; ifpeople see the waste separated by them to be mixed in some transfer stations orlandfill, then previous efforts will be lost and the confidence of some residents will bediscouraged, and municipality willlose credit within residents and also make difficultto implement again. Step by step, let people see the achievement, even smallachievement. In addition, residents of Jingshan relatively rely on the localgovemment, therefore, the combination of education, economic incentives andenvironmental restrictions perhaps can be help to sort waste and built theenvironmental concerns within residents.Although, China is facing a lot of problems both on economy and environment, therapid potential of development of China likely gives us the enough space ofimagination for optimal future, this is also suitable for Jingshan case.9.2 Lessons from the Municipal Sewerage Water Treatment SystemAt present, Chinese cities have adopted the model of the leading industri al countriesby using the same sewerage water collection system to collection whole municipalsewer inc1uding storm water, gray water and black water, each city has at least Ollewaste water treatment plant, just because the existing sewerage water collectionsystem mixed storm, gray and black waste, the work load of waste water treatmentplant is added up to a couple of times or more than ten times sometimes. And thefunction of waste water treatment plant is only to separate the black water out of the