During the weeklong Spring Festival holiday which ended on Tuesday, the local sanitation workers removed 113,000 tons of garbage, including 4,000 tons of the remnants of firecrackers and fireworks from streets across the city. Officials of the Public Sanitation Bureau said yesterday that more than 30,000 workers were assigned on the job during the holiday.

Also, the Public Sanitation Monitoring Team cited 350 outdoor advertisements for various infractions and banned 8,700 roadside stalls that posed a risk to traffic and public order, officials said. As a result, the bureau received only 50 complaints, 60 percent less than 125 complaints filed in the same period last year.

( eastday.com February 22, 2002)